The Rice Products (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Application of various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990

6.—(1) The following provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990(1) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations with the modification that any reference in those provisions to that Act or Part of it shall be construed as a reference to these Regulations–

(a) section 20 (offences due to fault of another person);

(b) section 21 (defence of due diligence) with the modification that subsections (2) to (4) shall apply in relation to an offence under regulation 3 as they apply in relation to an offence under section 14 or 15 and that in subsection (4)(b) the references to “sale or intended sale” shall be deemed to be references to “first placing on the market”;

(c) section 33 (obstruction etc. of officers);

(d) section 35(1) to (3) (punishment of offences), in so far as it relates to offences under section 33 as applied by sub-paragraph (c);

(e) section 36 (offences by bodies corporate);

(f) section 36A (offences by Scottish partnerships)(2); and

(g) section 44 (protection of officers acting in good faith).

(2) For the purposes of these regulations the provisions mentioned in paragraph (1) shall apply to feed as they apply to food.

(1)

1990 c. 16.

(2)

Section 36A was inserted by the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c. 28), Schedule 5, paragraph 16.