Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

11.  The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) shall be amended as follows –

(a) in Part II of Schedule 1 (manner of taking, preparing, marking, sealing and fastening of samples), for paragraph 5(1) there shall be substituted the following provision –

“(1) An inspector who intends to take a sample in accordance with section 76(7) of the Act as that section is modified by regulation 10 of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999(2) shall satisfy himself that the conditions in which the material concerned is stored are not such as might have caused undue deterioration of it, and that it appears not to have been contaminated by any other material.”;

(b) in Part I of Schedule 2 (methods of analysis), at the end of paragraph 3(e)(ii), for “Schedule 5 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995” there shall be substituted “Schedule 7 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001”; and

(c) in Part II of Schedule 3 (form of certificate of analysis), for note 10(a) there shall be substituted the following note –

“(a) whether or not the material was named in accordance with the requirements of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, and, if it was not named in accordance with those requirements, in what respect it was not;”.

(1)

S.R. 1999 No. 296, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

(2)

S.I. 1999/2325; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2001/541, S.I. 2001/3389 and S.R. 2001 No. 209