Food Irradiation Provisions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Amendments to the Food (Control of Irradiation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

9.  In Schedule 1, in Part III (alteration of conditions of irradiation licence), for paragraph 1(1) there shall be substituted the following—

“(1) The licensing authority and the applicant may, subject to paragraph 2, and to payment by the applicant to the licensing authority of a charge therefor (hereinafter referred to as “a variation agreement charge”), agree to vary—

(a) the term of the licence inserted by virtue of paragraph 4 of Part II(1), but only if the licence will if so varied apply to the same one of the seven permitted descriptions of food that it did prior to the variation; and in deciding whether or not to agree to vary that term the licensing authority shall consider whether it is satisfied that the conditions of the licence inserted by virtue of paragraph 5 or 6 of Part II are appropriate to the new description of food, or should be varied, and whether any new conditions should be inserted;

(b) any condition of a licence inserted by virtue of paragraph 5 or 6 of Part II.”.

(1)

Paragraph 4 requires the irradiation licence to specify each description of food to which it applies