Bread and Flour (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(i) after the definition of “EEA State” there shall be inserted—

““enzyme preparation” means any food additive which consists of one or more enzymes with or without the addition of supplementary material to facilitate the storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution of the enzyme or enzymes;”;

(ii) in the definition of “flour treatment agent”, after “food additive” there shall be inserted “, other than an enzyme preparation,”;

(b) in regulation 3 (exemptions)—

(i) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted—

“(2) These Regulations shall not apply in respect of—

(a) any bread brought into Northern Ireland from an EEA State in which it was lawfully produced and sold;

(b) any flour brought into Northern Ireland from a member State in which it was lawfully produced and sold;

(c) any bread or flour lawfully produced in another member State and brought into Northern Ireland from a member State in which it was lawfully sold;

(d) any bread or flour lawfully produced outside the European Community and brought into Northern Ireland from a member State in which it was in free circulation and lawfully sold,

which is suitably labelled to give the nature of the bread or flour.”;

(ii) for “shall be construed in accordance with” in paragraph (3) there shall be substituted “has the same meaning as in”;

(c) in regulation 5 (additional ingredients)—

(i) “enzyme preparation,” where it first occurs in paragraph (1) shall be deleted, and for “an enzyme preparation,” in that paragraph there shall be substituted “a”;

(ii) “enzyme preparation,” in each place where it occurs in paragraph (2) shall be deleted;

(d) in regulation 10 (transitional provisions), for “against” in each place where it occurs there shall be substituted “under”;

(e) in Schedule 3 (ingredients permitted in flour and bread) the entry in column 1 “alpha-Amylases Proteinases Hemicellulases” and the entry “All flour All bread” specified in column 2 in relation thereto shall be deleted.