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

PART III Consequential modifications to the Food (Control of Irradiation) Regulations 1990

1.  In regulation 2(1)–

(a) after the definition of “the Act” there is inserted the following–

““the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;”; and

(b) in the definition of “licensing authority”, for sub-paragraph (b) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph–

“(b) in relation to premises in Scotland, the Agency,”.

2.  In Schedule 2–

(a) in paragraph 1, for the words “the appropriate Ministers” there is substituted the words “the Agency”;

(b) paragraph 1(2)(a) is deleted;

(c) in paragraphs 2(1) and (2)–

(i) for the words “the appropriate Ministers”, wherever they occur in those provisions, there is substituted the words “the Agency”; and

(ii) for the words “they are”, wherever they occur in those provisions there is substituted the words “it is”; and

(d) in paragraph 2(3)–

(i) for the words “the appropriate Ministers cease” there is substituted the words “the Agency ceases”; and

(ii) for the word “they” there is substituted the word “it”.