The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Amendment of the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2012

13.  For regulation 27 (application of various provisions of the Act) substitute the following—

“27.— (1) Section 10(1) and (2) of the Act (improvement notices) applies for the purposes of these Regulations with the modification (in the case of section 10(1)) set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 for the purposes of—

(a) enabling an improvement notice to be served on a person requiring that person to comply with any of the following provisions—

(i) regulations 10(4), 10(6) and 12(6);

(ii) Article 16 of Regulation 1935/2004;

(iii) Article 5 of Regulation 1895/2005;

(iv) Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation 450/2009; and

(v) the second sentence of Article 8, Article 15 as read with Annex IV, and Article 16 of Regulation 10/2011; and

(b) making the failure to comply with a notice referred to in sub-paragraph (a) an offence.

(2) The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 2 apply, with the modifications (if any) specified in column 2 of that table.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are without prejudice to the application of the Act to these Regulations for purposes other than those specified in paragraph (1).”