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

Regulation 8

SCHEDULE 6 Regulations relating to food irradiation: consequential provisions

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

1.  In regulation 2(1)—

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

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

(b) in the definition of “licensing authority”, for “the Department of Agriculture” there shall be substituted “the Agency”.

2.  In paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2, for “the Department of Agriculture”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted “the Agency”.