Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (EEC Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (EEC Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 30th December 1996.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (EEC Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1).

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(2) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3.  The pesticides specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be inserted in column 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations in their appropriate alphabetically ordered positions and, in relation to each such pesticide, there shall be entered in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations the residues specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations opposite that pesticide.

4.  In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, for the maximum level of “0.02*” milligrammes of Lambda-cyhalothrin per kilogramme of product specified in relation to the product Peas (without pods) there shall be substituted the maximum level of “0.2” milligrammes of Lambda-cyhalothrin per kilogramme of product.

5.  In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, references to each pesticide stated at the head of a column in Schedule 2 to these Regulations together with the figures specified in the column below the reference to that pesticide so that those figures will appear opposite such groups of products or such individual products in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations as they appear opposite those products in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

6.  The maximum levels of pesticides per kilogramme of the groups of products or individual products stated opposite their names in Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall be inserted in the corresponding blank spaces in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations.

7.  In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations, after item 9 there shall be inserted, in the appropriate columns, the item specified in Schedule 4 to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on 12th November 1996.

L.S.

L. G. McKibben

Assistant Secretary