The Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) (Wales) Regulations 2010

PART 1 General and introductory

Title, application and commencement

1.  The title of these Regulations is the Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) (Wales) Regulations 2010, they apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 11 October 2010.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Agriculture Act 1970;

“Regulation 152/2009” (“Rheoliad 152/2009”) means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 152/2009 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed(1);

“the Feed Hygiene Regulations” (“y Rheoliadau Hylendid Bwyd Anifeiliaid”) means the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations 2005(2);

“the GM Feed Regulations” (“y Rheoliadau Bwyd Anifeiliaid AE”) means the Genetically Modified Animal Feed (Wales) Regulations 2004(3); and

“analyst” (“dadansoddwr”) means an agricultural analyst or deputy agricultural analyst.

(2) Any expression used in these Regulations and Regulation 152/2009 has the meaning that it bears in Regulation 152/2009.

(3) Any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section so numbered in the Act as modified by these Regulations.

Prescribed metric substitution

3.  For the purposes of its application to feeding stuffs, the Act is to be read as if—

(a) in section 68(2)(b) the words “to sales in quantities of not more than 25 kilograms” were substituted for the words “to sales of small quantities (that is to say, sales in quantities of not more than fifty six pounds or the prescribed metric substitution)”; and

(b) in section 76(5) the words “six kilograms” were substituted for the words “fourteen pounds or the prescribed metric substitution”.

(1)

OJ No. L54, 26.2.2009, p.1.

(2)

S.I. 2005/3368 (W.265) amended by S.I. 2006/3256 (W.290) and S.I. 2009/3376 (W.298).

(3)

S.I. 2004/3221 (W.277) amended by S.I. 2007/3173 (W.278).