The Food Safety (Fishery Products) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994

Amendment of the Food Safety (Fishery Products on Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1992

13.  After paragraph (2) of regulation 7 of the Food Safety (Fishery Products on Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1992(1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3) Section 32 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (powers of entry) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as though—

(a) any reference to premises included a reference to a fishing vessel (in so far as it does not already do so(2)); and

(b) any reference to the occupier included a reference to the master or other person in charge of the fishing vessel (in so far as it does not already do so).”.

(1)

S.I. 1992/3165.

(2)

See the definition of “premises” in section 1(3) of the Food Safety Act 1990, and the transitional provision contained in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the 1990 Act. No orders have yet been made under section 1(3) of the 1990 Act.