The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000

3.  In regulation 6–

(a) for paragraph (1) there is substituted the following–

“(1) The Scottish Ministers may, on application, approve any premises for the purposes of Part VI of these Regulations (transport and disposal of specified risk material) if they are satisfied that the premises–

(a) are properly equipped to carry out the functions to which the approval relates; and

(b) comply with the requirements of that Part of these Regulations.

(1A) The Agency may, on application, authorise or register any premises for the purposes of Parts II (restrictions on use of specified risk material and vertebral column of ruminant animals), IV (prohibitions on the removal of certain specified risk materials for ruminant animals) or V (particular requirements in relation to sheep and goats) of these Regulations if it is satisfied that the premises–

(a) are properly equipped to carry out the functions to which the authorisation or registration relates; and

(b) comply with the requirements of that Part of these Regulations to which authorisation or registration relates.”; and

(b) in paragraph (3) for the words “the Minister” there is substituted the words “the Scottish Ministers or, as the case may be, the Agency”.