The Specified Products from China (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Notification of positive results

4.—(1) An operator who becomes aware of a positive result of a test for the presence of the genetically modified rice “Bt 63” in a specified product that is under his control shall inform the Agency of that result immediately.

(2) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with the obligation in paragraph (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.