PART 5Enforcement and miscellaneous provisions

Enforcement

18.  Each district council must enforce and execute these Regulations within its district.

Application of provisions of the Order

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

Revocations

20.—(1) The following Regulations are revoked—

(a)the Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(1);

(b)the Honey (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(2); and

(c)the Honey (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(3).

(2) Omit the following provisions of the Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(4)—

(a)entry 12 of the table in Part 1 of Schedule 6; and

(b)paragraph 9 of Part 2 of Schedule 7.

Amendment of the Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

21.  Schedule 3 has effect.

Transitional provision

22.—(1) An authorised officer of an enforcement authority must not serve an improvement notice under Article 9(1) of the Order, as applied and modified by regulation 19, as read with Schedule 2, if—

(a)the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market or labelled before 24th June 2015; and

(b)the matters constituting the alleged contravention would not have constituted an offence under the Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 as they stood immediately before 24th June 2015.

(2) In this regulation “authorised officer” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2)(a) of the Order.