Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Registration of fishing vessels on board which shrimps or molluscs are cooked

21.—(1) A person operating a fishing vessel on board which shrimps and molluscs are, for the purposes of a food business, processed by cooking shall, unless such processing is to be supplemented subsequently by cooking, comply with paragraphs (2) and (4).

(2) The person operating the fishing vessel to which paragraph (1) applies shall, prior to engaging for the first time in such cooking, give notice in writing of his intention to do so to the district council for the area in which the vessel is based and shall at the same time supply that council with the following information—

(a) the name of the vessel;

(b) the usual place of landing of the processed products;

(c) the name and address of the owner of the vessel, and

(d) any changes to the information originally supplied under sub-paragraphs (a) to (c).

(3) Each district council shall maintain a register of all the information supplied pursuant to paragraph (2).

(4) Any processing of shrimps or molluscs by cooking on board a fishing vessel shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements of—

(a) paragraph 5 of Section I of Chapter III of Schedule 3; and

(b) paragraph 7 of Section IV of Chapter IV of Schedule 3.