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The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012
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[F1PART 1N.I.Modification of Article 9(1)
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 inserted (14.9.2017) by The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/157), reg. 1, Sch.
1. For Article 9(1) (improvement notices) substitute—N.I.
“(1) If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with a provision specified in sub-paragraph 1A, the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (in this Order referred to as an “improvement notice”) —
(a)state the officer’s grounds for believing that the person is failing to comply with the relevant provision;
(b)specify the matters which constitute the person’s failure so to comply;
(c)specify the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and
(d)require the person to take those measures, or measures that are at least equivalent to them, within such period (not being less than 14 days) as may be specified in the notice.
(1A) The provisions are—
(a)regulations 10(4), 10(6) or 12(6) of the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012;
(b)Article 16 of Regulation 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and repealing Directives 80/590/EEC and 89/109/EEC;
(c)Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1895/2005 on the restriction of use of certain epoxy derivatives in materials and articles intended to come into contact with food;
(d)Article 12 and 13 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 450/2009 on active and intelligent materials and articles intended to come into contact with food; F2...
(e)the second sentence of Article 8, Article 15 as read with Annex IV and Article 16 of Commission Regulation (EU) No. 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food [F3; and]
[F4(f)Article 4 of Regulation 2018/213.”]]
Textual Amendments
F2Word in Sch. 2 para. 1 omitted (29.11.2018) by virtue of The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/186), regs. 1, 12(a)
F3Word in Sch. 2 para. 1 inserted (29.11.2018) by The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/186), regs. 1, 12(b)
F4Word in Sch. 2 para. 1 inserted (29.11.2018) by The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/186), regs. 1, 12(c)
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