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17.—(1) Regulations may make provision—
(a)for prohibiting the carrying out of commercial operations with respect to novel foods or food sources from which such foods are intended to be derived of any class specified in the regulations;F1. . .
(b)for prohibiting the carrying out of such operations with respect to genetically modified food sources, or foods derived from such food sources, of any class so specified;[F1 or]
[F1(c)for prohibiting the importation of any food of a class so specified,]
and[F1 (in each case)] for excluding from the prohibition any food or food source which is of a description specified by or under the regulations[F1 and in the case of a prohibition on importation, is imported at an authorised place of entry].
(2) Regulations may also—
(a)prescribe, in relation to milk of any description which complies with such requirements as may be prescribed, such designation as[F2 the Department] considers appropriate;
(b)prohibit—
(i)all sales by retail; or
(ii)use, or possession for use, for the purposes of a business,
of milk, unless the milk is of a description to which a designation has been prescribed under sub‐paragraph (a) and complies with the requirements of milk of that designation;
(c)make provision for—
(i)the issue of milk licences;
(ii)the authorisation of the sale of milk produced by the holder of a milk licence in any area where no milk of a description prescribed under sub‐paragraph (a) is available; and
(iii)the imposition of conditions subject to which such a sale may be made.
[F1(2A) In this Article—
“authorised place of entry” means any port, aerodrome or other place of entry authorised by or under the regulations and, in relation to food in a particular consignment, includes any place of entry so authorised for the importation of that consignment;
“novel food” means any food which has not previously been used for human consumption in Northern Ireland, or has been so used to a very limited extent.]
(3) For the purposes of this Article a food source is genetically modified if any of the genes or other genetic material in the food source—
(a)has been modified by means of an artificial technique; or
(b)is inherited or otherwise derived through any number of replications, from genetic material which was so modified;
and in this paragraph “artificial technique” does not include any technique which involves no more than, or no more than the assistance of, naturally occurring processes of reproduction (including selective breeding techniques or in vitro fertilisation).
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