1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 31st March 1999.
(2) In these Regulations—
“baby foods” means foods for particular nutritional use fulfilling the particular requirements of infants and young children in good health and intended for use by infants while they are being weaned, and by young children as a supplement to their diet or for their progressive adaptation to ordinary food other than processed cereal-based foods;
“the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;
“processed cereal-based foods” means foods for particular nutritional use within the categories in Part I of Schedule 1 fulfilling the particular requirements of infants and young children in good health and intended for use by infants while they are being weaned, and by young children as a supplement to their diet or for their progressive adaptation to ordinary food; and
“sell” includes possess for sale, and offer, expose or advertise for sale.
(3) Other expressions used in these Regulations and in Commission Directive 96/5/EC(1) on processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children have the same meaning as they have in that Directive.
O.J. No. L49, 28.2.96, p. 17