Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 199921
Section 67 of the Agricultural Act 1970 shall have effect for the purpose specified in regulation 7(2) of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 199910 as if for subsection 8 of the said section there were substituted the following subsection (instead of the subsection substituted by regulation 29(c) of the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000)11:
8
If the Scottish Ministers are of the opinion that, in the area of an enforcement authority, the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000, (as amended by the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001), or section 73 or 73A of this Act, have been–
a
insufficiently enforced or administered by the authority concerned; or
b
enforced or administered by it without sufficient regard to the requirements of Council Directive 95/53/EC12 fixing the principles governing the organisation of official inspections in the field of animal nutrition, as amended by Council Directive 1999/20/EC13,
they may appoint one or more inspectors to exercise the powers exercisable by inspectors appointed by the authority, and any expenses certified by an inspector appointed by the Scottish Ministers as having been reasonably incurred by that inspector under this subsection shall be repaid on demand by that authority.