Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1995
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1995/613 |
| Year | 1995 |
1995 No. 613
FOOD
The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1995
Made 7th March 1995
Laid before Parliament 9th March 1995
Coming into force 1st April 1995
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(4), 16(1)(f) and (3), 26(3) and 48(1) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 19901and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:—
Title and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.
Amendment
2.—(1) The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 19892shall be amended as follows—
(a)
(a) in regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—
(i) after the definition of “animal feeding stuffs” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““enforcement authority” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 16 below;”;
(ii) for the definition of “food authority” there shall be substituted the following definition—
““food authority” has the same meaning as in the Act, except that it does not include the council of a non–metropolitan county;”;
(iii) for the definition of “stained” there shall be substituted the following definition—
““stained” means treated with a solution of the colouring agent Patent Blue V (E131, Colour Index No. 42051) at a concentration of 0.5%; and, for the purposes of this definition, “treated” means that the whole surface of the specified bovine offal has been covered with the said solution either by immersing the specified bovine offal in, or spraying or otherwise applying, the solution;”;
(b)
(b) in regulation 9 (prohibition of bringing in of specified bovine offal from Scotland or Northern Ireland)—
(i) in paragraph (2) for the words “the food authority in whose district those premises are or that specified bovine offal is located” there shall be substituted the words “the enforcement authority in relation to those premises”;
(ii) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“On receipt, in accordance with paragraph (2) of this regulation, of any such copy of—
(a)
(a) a consignment note, the enforcement authority shall, where it is not the enforcement authority in relation to the premises from where the specified bovine offal has been brought in, notify in writing that other enforcement authority of the arrival of the consignment related to the note;
(b)
(b) a permit, the enforcement authority shall notify in writing the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland of the arrival of the consignment related to the permit.”;
(c)
(c) in paragraphs (1)(c) and (2) of regulation 10 (exemption from requirements as to sterilisation and staining of specified bovine offal in slaughterhouses) for the words “of the food authority in whose district the slaughterhouse is situated” there shall be substituted the words “of the enforcement authority”;
(d)
(d) in paragraph (4) of regulation 11...
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