Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 No. 78

Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 3 Regulations relating to general food hygiene, temperature control and fish and shellfish hygiene: consequential provisions

Part I Consequential modifications to the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

In regulation 8(2)(c)(i) for “the Department”, in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted “the Food Standards Agency”.

Part II Consequential modifications to the Food Safety (Temperature Control) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

In regulations 12(a) and 15(2)(b)(i) for “the Department”, wherever it occurs in those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Food Standards Agency”.

Part III Consequential modifications to the Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a) before the definition of “another EEA State” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”; and

(b) in the definition of “designated bivalve production area”, for “the Department” there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

2.—(1) In each of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2), for “the Department”, wherever it occurs in those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a) regulations 3(1) to (3), 4, 5(1) and (2), 6(1) and (2), 7(3) and (4), 11(4)(b) and (5), 12(2)(b) and (3), 14(2) and (4), 22(4), 28(4)(c) and 52(1), (2)(b) and (3);

(b) in Schedule 2 —

(i) paragraph 5 of Chapter III;

(ii) paragraphs 4 and 12 of Section III of Chapter IV;

(iii) paragraph 1(a) of Section IV of Chapter IV;

(iv) paragraph 8 of Chapter V; and

(v) paragraph 1 of Chapter VI;

(c) in Schedule 3, paragraph 3B(2) of Section II of Chapter V.

3.  In regulation 52(3) for “assigned to them” there shall be substituted “assigned to it or, as the case may be, them”.

4.  In regulation 55(2), for “the Department concerned” there shall be substituted “the Department or the Agency”.