Statutory Instrument 1993 No. 152

The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulationa 1993

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1993 No. 152

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulationa 1993

The Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 122(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990^[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement
    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st Febraury 1993.

Keeping of the Register
    2.    In regulation 18 of the Genertically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992^[2]—
 (a) in paragraph (2), for the words "paragraph (3)" there shall be substituted the words "paragraphs (30 and (3A)";
 (b) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
"  (3A)  The information prescribed in regulation 17(3)(h) shall be placed on the register within fourteen days of the receipt by the Secretary of State of the committee's advice." .

Michael Howard

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Department of the Environment

27th January 1993
In witness whereof the Offical Seal of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 29th January 1993.


John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

These Regulations correct a defect in regulation 18 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 (S. I. 1992/3280). They provide that the advice of the committee appointed under section 124 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) as to applications for consents to release or market genetically modified organisms must be placed on the public register of information kept under section 122 of that Act within fourteen days of it being received by the Secretary of State.

[1] 1990 c. 43. back

[2] S. I. 1992/3280 back