The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Title, extent and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004; they apply in relation to England only and come into force on 20th January 2004.

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2003

2.  For the definition of “local authority” in regulation 2(1) of the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2003(1) there shall be substituted the following—

“local authority” means—

(a)

where there is a port health authority, that port health authority;

(b)

where there is no port health authority, but where there is a unitary authority, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(2), that unitary authority;

(c)

where there is no port health authority and no unitary authority—

(i)

in a metropolitan or a non-metropolitan district, the council of that district; and

(ii)

in each London borough, the council of that borough;

(d)

in the City of London, the Common Council; and

(e)

in the Isles of Scilly, the Council of the Isles of Scilly;.

Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

15th January 2004