The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 4th April 2005.

2.  The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999

3.  The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999(2) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 4 to 6.

4.  Immediately after regulation 9 (procedure relating to the withdrawal of approvals) there shall be inserted the following regulation –

“Fees

9A.— (1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3), (5), (6) and (7), an eligible person who applies to the competent body under regulation 5 or 7 to approve an establishment which is located in Northern Ireland as an establishment on which an establishment activity may be exercised shall –

(a) pay the relevant fee to the competent body; and

(b) reimburse the competent body the cost of any laboratory analysis incurred by it in connection with the application.

(2) Any fee payable under paragraph (1)(a) shall be payable at the time the application is submitted to the competent body.

(3) Any reimbursement due under paragraph (1)(b) shall be payable to the competent body on demand.

(4) In relation to any application under regulation 5 or 7, the competent body need not –

(a) take any step specified in regulation 6 until the relevant fee has been paid to it; or

(b) take any step specified in regulation 6(2) until, in accordance with paragraph (1)(b), it has been reimbursed the cost of any laboratory analysis incurred by it in connection with the application.

(5) Where an eligible person makes an application under regulation 5 seeking approval of an establishment as one on which more than one establishment activity may be exercised, he shall be liable to pay a single relevant fee, which fee shall be the highest one otherwise payable.

(6) Where an eligible person makes an application under regulation 7 seeking approval of an establishment as one on which more than one new establishment activity may be exercised, he shall be liable to pay a single relevant fee, which fee shall be the highest one otherwise payable.

(7) Any fee payable pursuant to paragraph (5) or (6) shall be treated, for the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4)(a), as included among any fee payable under paragraph (1)(a).

(8) In this regulation “relevant fee” means the fee specified in Column 2 of Part I of Schedule 1A which is opposite to the reference in Column 1 of that Part to the application of the kind being made by the applicant.”.

5.  Immediately after regulation 16 (procedure relating to the withdrawal of approvals) there shall be inserted the following regulation –

“Fees

16A.— (1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3), (5), (6) and (7), an eligible person who applies to the competent body under regulation 12 or 14 to be approved as an intermediary who may exercise an intermediary activity in Northern Ireland shall –

(a) pay the relevant fee to the competent body; and

(b) reimburse the competent body the cost of any laboratory analysis incurred by it in connection with the application.

(2) Any fee payable under paragraph (1)(a) shall be payable at the time the application is submitted to the competent body.

(3) Any reimbursement due under paragraph (1)(b) shall be payable to the competent body on demand.

(4) In relation to any application under regulation 12 or 14, the competent body need not –

(a) take any step specified in regulation 13(1) or (3) until the relevant fee has been paid to it; or

(b) take any step specified in regulation 13(3) until, in accordance with paragraph (1)(b), it has been reimbursed the cost of any laboratory analysis incurred by it in connection with the application.

(5) Where an eligible person makes an application under regulation 12 seeking approval as a person who may exercise more than one intermediary activity, he shall be liable to pay a single relevant fee.

(6) Where an eligible person makes an application under regulation 14 seeking approval as a person who may exercise more than one new intermediary activity, he shall be liable to pay a single relevant fee.

(7) Any fee payable pursuant to paragraph (5) or (6) shall be treated, for the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4)(a), as included among any fee payable under paragraph (1)(a).

(8) In this regulation “relevant fee” means the fee specified in Column 2 of Part II of Schedule 1A which is opposite to the reference in Column 1 of that Part to the application of the kind being made by the applicant.”.

6.  Immediately after Schedule 1 (Expressions having the same meaning as in Directive 70/524 and Expressions having the same meaning as in Directive 95/69) there shall be inserted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 9th March 2005.

L.S.

Noel McCann

A senior officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety