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Citation and commencementN.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 and come into operation on 13th December 2014.

InterpretationN.I.

2.  In these Regulations—

EEA State” means a Member State (other than the United Kingdom), Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein;

FIC” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 M1 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 [F1as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council] ;

ingredient” has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(f) of FIC;

meat” means the skeletal muscles of mammalian and bird species recognised as fit for human consumption with naturally included or adherent tissue but does not include mechanically separated meat as defined in point 1.14 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin M2;

regulated product” means a food that contains one of the following as an ingredient (whether or not the food also contains any other ingredient)—

(a)

meat;

(b)

mechanically separated meat as defined in point 1.14 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council [F2as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1981] ;

(c)

the heart, the tongue, the muscles of the head (other than the masseters), the carpus, the tarsus, or the tail of any mammalian or bird species recognised as fit for human consumption;

the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

sell” includes offer or expose for sale and includes have in possession for sale; and

uncooked”, in relation to a food, means a food that has not been subjected to a process of cooking throughout the whole food so that the food is sold on the basis that it will need further cooking before consumption.

Textual Amendments

Marginal Citations

M1OJ No L 304, 22.11.2011, p 18, last amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 78/2014 (OJ No L 27, 30.1.2014, p 7)

M2OJ No L 139, 30.4.2004, p 55, last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 633/2014 (OJ No L 175, 14.6.2014, p 6)

ScopeN.I.

3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), these Regulations apply to food that is ready for delivery to the final consumer or to a mass caterer.

(2) These Regulations do not apply in respect of any food—

(a)that is not intended for sale for human consumption; or

(b)to which the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 M3 apply.

(3) These Regulations do not apply to any product that is brought into Northern Ireland from another part of the United Kingdom, an EEA State or from the Republic of Turkey in which it was lawfully marketed.

(4) In this regulation—

final consumer” has the meaning given in point 18 of Article 3 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; and

mass caterer” has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(d) of FIC.

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Restrictions on the use of certain namesN.I.

4.—(1) A person must not sell or advertise a regulated product using a name that appears in column 1 of the table of Schedule 1 as the name of the food, whether or not qualified by other words, unless the food complies with the appropriate requirements in columns 2 and 3 of that table.

(2) A person must not sell or advertise a food using a name that appears in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1, whether or not qualified by other words, in such a way as to suggest, either expressly or by implication, that the product designated by that name is an ingredient of the food, unless that product is an ingredient of the food and that product complied with the appropriate requirements in columns 2 and 3 of the table in Schedule 1 at the time it was used as an ingredient in the preparation of the food.

Parts of the carcase in uncooked regulated productsN.I.

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a person must not sell an uncooked regulated product if any part of a carcase specified in paragraph (2) has been used as an ingredient in the preparation of that product.

(2) The specified parts of a carcase are the brains, feet, large intestine, lungs, oesophagus, rectum, small intestine, spinal cord, spleen, stomach, testicles and udder from any mammalian species.

(3) The prohibition in paragraph (1) does not extend to the use of a mammalian large or small intestine solely as a sausage skin.

(4) In this regulation “sausage” includes chipolata, frankfurter, link, salami and any similar product.

EnforcementN.I.

6.  It is the duty of each district council within its district to enforce these Regulations.

Improvement notice – application of Article 9 of the OrderN.I.

7.—(1) Article 9(1) and (2) of the Order (improvement notices) apply for the purposes of these Regulations with the following modification.

(2) For paragraph (1), substitute—

(1) If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with regulations 4(1), (2) or 5(1) of the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014, 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 a period (not being less than 14 days) as may be specified in the notice..

Appeals against an improvement noticeN.I.

8.—(1) Article 37 of the Order (appeals) applies for the purposes of these Regulations as modified by paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) For paragraph (1) substitute “ Any person who is aggrieved by a decision of an authorised officer to serve an improvement notice under Article 9(1) as applied and modified by regulation 7 of the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 may appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction. ”.

(3) In paragraph (2A)(b) for “(1)(a)”, substitute “ (1) as applied by regulation 7 of the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014, ”.

(4) Article 38 of the Order (appeals against improvement notices) applies for the purposes of these Regulations with the modification that “ as applied by regulation 8(1) of the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 ” is inserted after “ improvement notice ” in each place occurring.

Application and modification of other provisions of the OrderN.I.

9.  The provisions of the Order specified in column 1 of the table in Schedule 2 apply for the purposes of these Regulations with modifications specified in column 2 of that table.

RevocationsN.I.

10.  The following Regulations are revoked—

(a)the Meat Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 M4;

(b)the Meat Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 M5; and

(c)regulation 18(4) of the Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 M6.

Marginal Citations

M4S.R. 2004 No. 13, as amended by S.R. 2008 No.82

Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 18th November 2014.

L.S.

Julie Thompson

A senior officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

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