The Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

PART 5 N.I. Enforcement and miscellaneous provisions

Enforcement N.I.

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

Application of provisions of the Order N.I.

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 N.I.

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

(a) the Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 M1 ;

(b) the Honey (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 M2 ; and

(c) the Honey (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 M3 .

(2) Omit the following provisions of the Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 M4 —

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

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

Marginal Citations

M1 S.R. 2003 No. 383, amended by S.R. 2005 No. 385, S.R. 2008 No.126 and S.R. 2014 No. 223

M2 S.R. 2005 No. 385

M3 S.R. 2008 No. 126

M4 S.R. 2014 No. 223

Amendment of the Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 N.I.

21.  Schedule 3 has effect.

Transitional provision N.I.

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.