Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Part V Consequential modifications to the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a) before the definition of “animals” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”; and

(b) the definition of “the Department” shall be omitted.

2.—(1) In each of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (2), for “the Department”, wherever it occurs in those provisions, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

(2) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are the definitions of “OVS” and “veterinary officer” in regulation 2(1), and regulations 4(1), (2), (3), (4), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)(b)(i) and (ii), (13) and (14), 5(1), (1)(a) and (e), (2), (3) and (4), 7(1) to (3), 8(1), (2) and (4), 10(1), 11(1) to (3) and (5), 12(3)(b), 13(3), 18(1) and (2), 19(1)(d), 20(2)(b) and (3), 22, 24(4)(a)(i) and (iii), (b) and (c) and paragraph 1(b) of Part I of Schedule 6, paragraphs 13 and 14 of Part IX of Schedule 10, paragraph 2(d) of Schedule 14 and paragraph 2 of Schedule 16.