The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2003

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 3119 (W.297)

AGRICULTURE, WALES

The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) (No.2) Regulations 2003

Made

2nd December 2003

Coming into force

3rd December 2003

The National Assembly for Wales acting in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 74A and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970 M1 (as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 M2 and articles 2 and 6 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 M3) and now exercisable by it in relation to Wales M4, after consultation as required by section 84(1) of that Act and by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety M5, and being designated M6 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 M7 in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that last mentioned section (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers of the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), makes the following Regulations:

Marginal Citations

M11970 c. 40. Section 66(1) contains definitions of the expressions “the Ministers”, “prescribed” and “regulations”; the definition of “the Ministers” was amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272), Schedule 5, paragraph 1. Section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (1972 c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 6.

M4Functions of the Secretary of State, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672.

M5OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1. Under Article 3 of the EC Regulation “food law” extends to feed produced for, or fed to, food producing animals.