The Feeding Stuffs (Safety Requirements for Feed for Food-Producing Animals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Application of various provisions of the Act

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3) the provisions of the Act specified in paragraph (2) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations and Articles 15, 16, 18 and 20 of Regulation 178/2002 as if –

(a) any reference in them to feeding stuff were a reference to feed;

(b) any reference in them to the Act or any Part of it were a reference to these Regulations and to Articles 15, 16, 18 and 20 of Regulation 178/2002;

(c) any reference to samples taken in a prescribed manner were a reference to samples taken in a manner prescribed in Part II of Schedule 1 of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1);

(2) The specified provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are –

(a) section 76 (inspector’s power to enter premises and take samples), with the modification that paragraph (b) of subsection (2) shall be construed as if it gave the inspector power to take copies of any documentation relating to the feed;

(b) section 77 (division of samples and analysis by agricultural analyst);

(c) section 78(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)(a) and 10 (further analysis by the Chief Agricultural Analyst);

(d) section 79(3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) and (10) (supplementary provisions relating to samples and analysis);

(e) section 80 (institution of prosecutions);

(f) section 81 (offences due to fault of other person);

(g) section 82 (defence of mistake, accident, etc.);

(h) section 83 (exercise of powers by inspectors);

(i) section 110 (offences by bodies corporate).

(3) the provisions of paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply in the case of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) (c).

(1)

S.R. 1999 No. 296, amended by S.R. 2001 No. 209, S.R. 2002 No. 263, S.R. 2003 No. 287 and S.R. 2004 No. 345 and modified by S.R. 2001 No. 47