Prevention of Damage by Pests (Infestation of Food) Regulations, 1950
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1950/416 |
1950 No. 416
PESTS
The Prevention of Damage by Pests (Infestation of Food) Regulations 1950
Made 23th March 1950
Laid before Parliament 23th March 1950
Coming into Operation 31th March 1950
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland in pursuance of Section 13 (3) of the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such associations and bodies as appear to them to be representative of the persons affected, hereby make the following regulations:—
1. These regulations which may be cited as the Prevention of Damage by Pests (Infestation of Food) Regulations, 1950, shall come into operation on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty.
2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—
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(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889 applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. The requirements of Section 13 (1) of the Act in so far as they relate to the giving of notice that infestation is present in any premises or equipment shall not apply to infestation with insects or mites of premises of the description set out in Part Ix of the Schedule to these regulations, or of any equipment belonging to such premises:
Provided that any person who, except for this regulation, would be required to give notice of infestation in such premises or equipment shall give notice in writing to the Minister—
(a) of infestation present in, or in any equipment belonging to, any part of such premises in which after processing, any food, or any by-product resulting from such processing, is stored;
(b) if he proposes to employ for the purpose of remedying infestation in any premises to which this regulation applies any person carrying on business in the provision of services for keeping down or destroying insects or mites, of the name and address of the person to be employed and of the methods to be used.
4. The requirements of Section 13 (1) of the Act in so far as they relate to the giving of notice that infestation is present in any food shall not apply to infestation with insects or mites—
(a) in any foods described in and fulfilling the requirements of Part II of the Schedule to these regulations;
(b) in oil seeds which are being or have been moved from one extracting mill to another for the purpose of the extraction of oil;
(c) in fresh fruit or green vegetables, fresh home-killed meat, or fish other than cured or processed.
5. Subject to the provision of these regulations, when any notice has been given in accordance with Section 13 of the Act in respect of any food or any other goods no person shall, without the consent of the Minister, deliver, or cause to be delivered, such food or goods from the premises in which they are...
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