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The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 31st March 2001.

(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995

2.  The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995(1) (“the principal Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5 below.

3.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “Directive 96/77/EC” there shall be added at the end the words “and Commission Directive 2000/63/EC”(2).

4.  In regulation 11 (transitional provision and exemptions), there shall be inserted after paragraph (1B) the following paragraph–

“(1C) In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations in respect of any food additive or food, it shall be a defence to prove that–

(a)the food additive or food concerned was put on the market or labelled before 31st March 2001; and

(b)the matter constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made by regulations 3 and 5 of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 had not come into force when that matter occurred.”.

5.  In Schedule 5 (purity criteria) the entries relating to the miscellaneous additives listed in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be omitted.

SUSAN C DEACON

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

15th March 2001

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