The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 17th February 2005.

Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

2.  The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3.  In regulation 11, for paragraph (1E)(2) there shall be substituted –

“(1E) In any proceedings for an offence in contravention of regulation 3(1), where it is alleged that a food additive failed to satisfy the purity criteria for that additive, it shall be a defence for the accused to show either –

(a) that the food additive concerned is E431-E436, or polyethylene glycol 6000 and the food additive or food concerned was put on the market or labelled before 5th November 2004; or

(b) that the food additive concerned is E407, E407a, E1517 or E1519 and the food additive or food concerned was put on the market or labelled before 1st April 2005;

and that that matter constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made to them by regulation 3 of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004(3) had not been in operation when that matter occurred.”

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 14th January 2005.

L.S.

D. Kenny

A senior officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety