Amendments to the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19985

In regulation 3 (restriction on the use, sale or importation of plastic materials and articles) –

a

for the heading there shall be substituted the following heading –

Restriction on the use, sale or importation of plastic materials and articles, adhesives and materials and articles covered by surface coatings

b

in paragraphs (1) and (2), immediately after “plastic material or article”, wherever it occurs, there shall be inserted “, adhesive or material or article covered by a surface coating”;

c

at the end of paragraph (4)(a)(iii), “or” shall be deleted;

d

for paragraph (4)(a)(iv) there shall be substituted the following provision –

iv

it does not comply with regulation 4(5), (5A) or (5B), 4A(4), (5) or (6), 5(4), (4A), (4B) or (4C), 7 or 7A(1), or

e

immediately after paragraph (4)(a)(iv) there shall be inserted the following provision –

v

it has been manufactured in contravention of a prohibition contained in regulation 4A(1), (2) or (3),

f

there shall be added at the end the following paragraph –

5

For the purposes of this regulation, an adhesive or a material or article covered by a surface coating fails to meet the requisite standards if –

i

it has been manufactured in contravention of a prohibition contained in regulation 8A(1), (2) or (3), or

ii

it does not comply with regulation 8A(4), (5) or (6).