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Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

11.  In regulation 10 (modification of section 76 of the Agriculture Act 1970) –

(a)“(as specified in regulation 7)” shall be omitted;

(b)for the modified version of subsection (8) of section 76 of the Agriculture Act 1970 which is set out in that regulation there shall be substituted the following subsection —

(8) Subject to subsections (9), (10) and (12) of this section, an inspector entering premises by virtue of this section, or of a warrant issued under it, shall have the right to take on those premises a sample of any material appearing to him to be a controlled product other than relevant material as described in subsection (7) of this section, in the like manner as that prescribed in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999.;

(c)immediately after the modified version of section (8) of section 76 of that Act as so set out there shall be inserted the following subsection –

(8A) For the purposes of this Part of this Act a sample taken in accordance with subsection (8) of this section shall be deemed to be taken in the prescribed manner.; and

(d)in the modified version of subsection (9) of section 76 of that Act as so set out for “subsection (8)” there shall be inserted “subsections (8) and (10)”.