SCHEDULE 7CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

The Beef Bones Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

17.  In regulation 12 (enforcement)—

(a)for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(1) These Regulations shall be enforced—

(a)by the Agency in relation to any cutting-plant, game-handling establishment or slaughterhouse; and

(b)in relation to any other premises, by the Agency or by each district council within whose district the premises are situated;

and each such authority shall for the purposes of these Regulations be an enforcement authority.; and

(b)in paragraph (2) immediately after the words “of an enforcement authority” there shall be inserted “or an official veterinarian”.