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Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

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Part VIIIConsequential modifications to the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a)before the first definition of “approved” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;;

(b)in the second definition of “approved”, for “the Department” there shall be substituted “the Agency”; and

(c)in the definition of “listed premises”, for “the Department” there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

2.  For regulation 5 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

Approvals

5.(1) The Department may, on application, approve any premises for the purposes of Part VI (transport and disposal of specified risk material) if it is satisfied that the premises—

(a)are properly equipped to carry out the functions to which the approval relates; and

(b)comply with the requirements of that Part.

(2) The Agency may, on application, authorise or register any premises for the purposes of Parts II, IV or V respectively (restrictions on the use of specified risk material and vertebral columns of ruminant animals, prohibitions on the removal of certain specified risk materials from ruminant animals and particular requirements in relation to sheep and goats) if it is satisfied that the premises—

(a)are properly equipped to carry out the functions of these Regulations to which the authorisation or registration relates; and

(b)comply with the requirements of the Part of these Regulations to which the authorisation or registration relates..

3.—(1) In each of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2), for “the Department”, wherever it occurs in those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are regulations 8(1), (2), (3), (4) and (5), 10(3), 14(2), 15(1)(a) and (7), 16A(2), 19(4), 31(1) and 31(A)(1).

4.  In regulation 8(4), for “him” there shall be substituted “it”.

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