The Food Safety (Information and Compositional Requirements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

InterpretationN.I.

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

[F1“Delegated Regulation 127” means Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/127 of 25 September 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the specific compositional and information requirements for infant formula and follow-on formula and as regards requirements on information relating to infant and young child feeding;

Delegated Regulation 128” means Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/128 of 25 September 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the specific compositional and information requirements for food for special medical purposes;]

[F2“the EU Regulation” means, subject to regulation to 2(2), Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives 96/8/EC, 1999/21/EC, 2006/125/EC and 2006/141/EC, Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) No 41/2009 and (EC) No 953/2009 as last amended by Commission Delegated Regulation 2017/1091;]

[F3“food for special medical purposes” has the same meaning in these Regulations as in the EU Regulation;

“infant” means a child under the age of 12 months;]

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

[F4“specified EU requirement” means any provision of the EU Regulation or Delegated Regulation 127 or Delegated Regulation 128 specified in column 1 of Schedule 1, as read with the provisions specified in the corresponding entry in column 2.]

(2) Any reference to Article 2(2) or to a specified EU requirement is a reference to that provision as amended from time to time.

(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 M1 applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly

[F5(4) Any reference to a provision of Delegated Regulation 127 or Delegated Regulation 128 contained in the table in Schedule 1 is a reference to that provision as amended from time to time.]

[F6(5) Any expression used in both these Regulations and in Delegated Regulation 127 or Delegated Regulation 128 has the same meaning it bears in Delegated Regulation 127 or Delegated Regulation 128, as the case may be.]

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