The Plastic Kitchenware (Conditions on Imports from China) (Wales) Regulations 2011

InterpretationE+W

2.—(1) In these Regulations —

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“the Agency” (“yr Asiantaeth”) means the Food Standards Agency;

“the Commission Regulation” (“Rheoliad y Comisiwn”) means Commission Regulation (EU) No. 284/2011 laying down specific conditions and detailed procedures for the import of polyamide and melamine plastic kitchenware originating in or consigned from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China(1);

“food authority” (“awdurdod bwyd”) has the meaning that it bears by virtue of section 5(1A) of the Act; and

“relevant product” (“cynnyrch perthnasol”) means plastic kitchenware originating in or consigned from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

(2) Any expression used in these Regulations and the Commission Regulation has the same meaning in these Regulations as it bears in the Commission Regulation and any reference to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article so numbered in the Commission Regulation.

(3) Where any functions under the Act are assigned —

(a)by an order under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(2), to a port health authority; or

(b)by an order under section 6 of the Public Health Act 1936(3), to a joint board for a united district;

any reference in these Regulations to a food authority must be construed, so far as relating to those functions, as a reference to the authority to whom they are so assigned.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 2 in force at 1.7.2011, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

OJ No. L77, 23.3.2011, p.25.

(2)

1984 c. 22; section 7(3)(d) was substituted by paragraph 27 of Schedule 3 to the Food Safety Act 1990.

(3)

1936 c. 49; section 6 is to be read with paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Food Safety Act 1990.