The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Application of various provisions of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

29.—(1) The following provisions of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) apply, subject to the modifications specified in paragraph (2), for the purposes of these Regulations as they apply in relation to sampling and analysis under those Regulations—

(a) regulation 2 (prescribed amount for the purposes of the definition of the sampled portion);

(b) regulation 3 (manner of taking, preparing, marking, sealing and fastening of samples);

(c) regulation 4 (methods of sending part of a sample);

(d) regulation 5 (application of methods of analysis);

(e) regulation 6 (form of certificate of analysis);

(f) regulation 7 (period within which analysis of the oil content of a feeding stuff must be carried out);

(g) Schedule 1 (manner of taking, preparing, marking, sealing and fastening of samples);

(h) Schedule 2 (methods of analysis);

(i) Schedule 3 (form of certificate of analysis)

(2) The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 as they apply in relation to Northern Ireland shall be read as if in those Regulations—

(a) any reference to “feeding stuffs” were a reference to “feed”;

(b) any reference to “ inspector” were a reference to “authorised officer”;

(c) for the expression “analysed pursuant to the Act” there were substituted “analysed for the purposes of carrying out official controls and the enforcement of specified feed law as that term is defined in the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005”;

(d) in regulation 4, for the expression “in pursuance of subsection (1)(b) or (2) of section 77 of the Act” there were substituted “under regulation 30(1)(b) and (c) of the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005”;

(e) in regulation 6, for the expression “pursuant to section 77(4) of the Act” there were substituted “under regulation 30(4) of the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005”;

(f) in Schedule 1, in paragraph 5(1) of Part II for the expression “in accordance with section 76(7) of the Act as that section is modified by regulation 10 of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999” there were substituted “under regulation 24(6) of the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005”;

(g) in Schedule 3—

(i) in Part I after the expression “Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1970” there were inserted “ or of the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005”;

(ii) in Part II in note (1) after the expression “the Agriculture Act 1970” there were added “or the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005”.

(1)

S.R. 1999 No. 296, as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 209, S.I. 2002 No. 263, S.R. 2003 No. 287, S.R. 2004 No. 345 and S.R. 2005 No. 545