The Food Hygiene and Official Feed and Food Controls (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) of and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 19722.

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has been designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food producing animals3, the common agricultural policy of the European Community4 and measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health5.

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 any reference to the EU instruments referred to in Regulation 2(4) or Regulation 3(3) to be construed as a reference to those instruments as amended from time to time.