Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 No. 78

SCHEDULE 4 Regulations relating to meat hygiene, etc.: consequential provisions

Part VI Consequential modifications to the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

(a) before the definition of “ambient store” 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 definition of “approval authority” in regulation 2(1) and regulations 4(1)(c), 5(1)(c), 19(1) and 22 and paragraph 2(a)(iii) of Part IX of Schedule 2.