Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
AGRICULTURE
Made
16th August 2004
Coming into operation
17th September 2004
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 75(1), 76(1), 77(4), 78(6), 79(1) and (2), 84 and 86 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1) (as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(2)), after consultation as required by section 84(1) of that Act and by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(3), and being a Department designated(4) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(5) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers in the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1970 c. 40; sections 68(1A) and 74A were inserted by the Agriculture Act 1970 (Amendment) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980) and the European Communities Act 1972 (1972 c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 6 respectively
O.J. No. L31, 1.2.2002, p. 1. Under Article 3 of the EC Regulation “food law” extends to feed produced for, or fed to, food producing animals
S.I. 2000/2812
1972 c. 68. The enabling powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)