Food (Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2000 No. 185

FOOD

Food (Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made

22nd May 2000

Coming into operation

23rd May 2000

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1) in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 12(1), 26(3) and 47(2) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, having regard in accordance with Article 47(3A) of that Order to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Food (Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) (Revocation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 23rd May 2000.

Revocation

2.  The Food (Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000(3) is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 22nd May 2000.

L.S.

Don Hill

Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order revokes the Food (Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 72—“the revoked Order”) and implements, in relation to food, Commission Decision 2000/301/EC repealing the protective measures with regard to contamination by dioxins of certain products of porcine and poultry origin intended for human or animal consumption (O.J. No. L97, 19.4.2000, p. 16). (The protective measures concerned were contained in Commission Decision 1999/788/EC (O.J. No. L310, 4.12.1999, p. 62) as amended by Commission Decision 2000/150/EC (O.J. No. L50, 23.2.2000, p. 25) and were implemented, in relation to food, by the revoked Order).

(1)

Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3

(2)

S.I. 1991/762 (N.I. 7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1633 (N.I. 12) and paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c. 28

(3)

S.R. 2000 No. 72