Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2010 No. 355
Agriculture
The Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010
Made
26th October 2010
Coming into operation
23rd November 2010
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 66(1), 68(1), 74A(1), (2) and (4) and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970(2), as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(3).
In so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers in the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety makes these Regulations in exercise of its powers as a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(4) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community(5), measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health(6) and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals(7), as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act.
These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety that it is expedient for references to the Annexes to the EU instruments mentioned in regulation 2(3) to be construed as references to those Annexes as they may be amended from time to time.
There has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation of these Regulations in accordance with the requirements of Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(8) or, in the case of provisions relating to feed for non food-producing animals, of section 84(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970.
Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3
1970 c.40; sections 66(1) and 84 are modified in their application to Northern Ireland by section 86 of the Act and were amended by S.R. 2004 No. 506; section 66(1) was also amended by S.R. 2010 No. 323. Section 74A was inserted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68)
OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468 with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14)