The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Amendment of the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

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12.  For regulation 26 (application of various provisions of the Order) substitute—

26.(1) Article 9(1) and (2) of the Order (improvement notices) applies for the purposes of these Regulations with the modification (in the case of Article 9(1)) set out in Schedule 2 Part 1 for the purposes of-

(a)enabling an improvement notice to be served on a person requiring that person to comply with any of the following provisions—

(i)regulations 10(4), 10(6), 12(6);

(ii)Article 16 of Regulation 1935/2004;

(iii)Article 5 of Regulation 1895/2005;

(iv)Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation 450/2009; and

(v)the second sentence of Article 8, Article 15 as read with Annex IV and Article 16 of Regulation 10/2011; and

(b)making the failure to comply with a notice referred to in sub-paragraph (a) an offence.

(2) The provisions of the Order specified in column 1 of the table in Part 2 to Schedule 2 apply, with the modifications (if any) specified in column 2 of that table.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are without prejudice to the application of the Order to these Regulations for purposes other than those specified in paragraph (1).