Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Social Services, acting jointly as the Department concerned1, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Articles 15(1)(a) (b) and (f) and (3), 16(1) and (2), 25(1), (2)(a) and (b) and (3), 26(3), 30(9), 31(3), 32(1) and (2)(c), (d), (e), (f), and (h), 44(1) and (2) and 47(2) of, and paragraphs 3(1)(b) and 7(1) to (3) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 19912 (“the Order”) and being Departments designated3 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19724 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community and in relation to medicinal products, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf; after consultation in accordance with Article 47 of the Order with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations (in so far as the Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Articles of the Order), hereby make the following Regulations: