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

SCHEDULE 6 REGULATIONS RELATING TO FOOD IRRADIATION AND NOVEL FOODS: CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS

PART I CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE FOOD (CONTROL OF IRRADIATION) REGULATIONS 1990

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

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

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

(b) in the definition of “licensing authority”, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a) in relation to premises in England and Wales, the Agency, and”.

2.  In Schedule 2—

(a) in paragraph 1, for the words “the appropriate Ministers” there shall be substituted the words “the Agency”;

(b) sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1(2) shall be revoked;

(c) in paragraphs 2(1) and (2)—

(i) for the words “the appropriate Ministers”, wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words “the Agency”; and

(ii) for the words “they are”, wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words “it is”; and

(d) in paragraph 2(3)—

(i) for the words “the appropriate Ministers cease” there shall be substituted the words “the Agency ceases”; and

(ii) for the word “they” there shall be substituted the word “it”.