The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.S.I. 2008/176 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument.

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 218

AGRICULTURE

FOOD

The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Made

4th June 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

6th June 2008

Coming into force

1st July 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008, and come into force on 1st July 2008.

Amendment of the Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2007

2.—(1) The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2007(2) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In Schedule 2–

(a) at the end of paragraph (e) omit “and”;

(b) at the end of paragraph (f) insert–

• “; and

  (g)

  the Guar Gum (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Scotland) Regulations 2008(3)”.

PAM WHITTLE

A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

4th June 2008

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Official Feed and Food Control (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”) to add the Guar Gum (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (“the 2008 Regulations”) to the definition of “relevant feed law” in Schedule 2 to the 2007 Regulations.

This amendment is made to correct an omission in the 2008 Regulations.

No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations.

(1)

1972 c. 68. The functions conferred on the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) of the 1972 Act, in so far as exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). In so far as not so transferred, and in so far as relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food, that function was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/849) and in so far as relating to certain animal feeding stuffs and feed additives for use in animal nutrition, that function was transferred by the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/304). Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).

(2)

S.S.I. 2007/522.

(3)

S.S.I. 2008/176.