The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1998

Supplementary provisions relating to sampling and analysis, prosecutions, offences and defences

96.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of this Part of these Regulations, sections 79(4) to (8), 80(1), 81, 82 and 110, of the Act shall have effect, as if these Regulations were made under section 74A(4) of the Act.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—

(a) in relation to Northern Ireland—

(i) section 79(4) to (6) of the Act shall have effect as if, for the references therein to the Government Chemist, there were substituted references to the Chief Agricultural Analyst, and

(ii) section 79(5) of the Act shall have effect as if the expression “(3)(b)” were omitted,

(b) section 82(1) of the Act shall have effect as if, for the words “any of the following provisions of this Act, namely, sections 68(1A), 4(b) and (c), 69(4)(c), 70(2), 71(2)(b), 73, 73A and 74A” there were substituted the words “the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1998”, and

(c) section 110(1) of the Act shall have effect as if, for the words “this Act or any order or scheme made thereunder” there were substituted the words “the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1998”.