Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 250

AGRICULTURE

PESTICIDES

Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

23rd July 2002

Coming into operation

1st September 2002

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a Department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2), and, in respect of the provisions of these Regulations relating to Part I of Schedule 2 to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(3), in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 16(2) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(4), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

S.I. 2000/2812

(2)

1972 c. 68; the powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)

(3)

S.R. 2002 No. 20 as amended by S.R. 2002 No. 27

(4)

1985 c. 48; section 16 was amended by the Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989 (c. 27) and by the Pesticides Act 1998 (c. 26); see also section 25(2) and Article 3(4) of the Department (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1)) and section 25(2A) as inserted by section 1(5) of the Pesticides Act 1998