The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 No. 656

SCHEDULE 4 REGULATIONS RELATING TO MEAT HYGIENE, ETC.: CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS

PART VII CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE MINCED MEAT AND MEAT PREPARATIONS (HYGIENE) REGULATIONS 1995

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a) after the definition of the “the Act” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”;

(b) in the definition of “approval authority” for the words “the Minister” there shall be substituted the words “the Agency”; and

(c) the definition of “the Minister” shall be deleted.

2.—(1) In each of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2) below for the words “the Minister”, wherever they occur in those provisions, there shall be substituted the words “the Agency”.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above are regulations 10 and 12(1), (2), (3) and (8).