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

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

3.  In regulation 11, for paragraph (1E)(1) 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(2) had not been in operation when that matter occurred.”

(1)

As added by S.R. 2004 No. 439 regulation 4

(2)

S.R 2004 No. 439