Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999
11. For regulation 9 (modification of section 67(8) of the Agriculture Act 1970), there shall be substituted–
“Modification of section 67(8) of the Agriculture Act 1970
9. Section 67 of the Act shall have effect as if for subsection (8) of the said section there were substituted the following subsection (instead of the subsection substituted by regulation 21 of the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001(1))–
“(8) If the Scottish Ministers are of the opinion that, in the area of an enforcement authority, the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000, or section 73 or 73A of this Act, have been–
(a)insufficiently enforced or administered by that authority; or
(b)enforced or administered by it without sufficient regard to the requirements of Council Directive 95/53/EC fixing the principles governing the organisation of official inspections in the field of animal nutrition(2), as amended by Council Directive 1999/20/EC(3), Directive 2000/77/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(4) and Directive 2001/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(5),
they may appoint one or more inspectors to exercise the powers exercisable by inspectors appointed by that 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.””.
O.J. No. L 265, 8.11.95, p.17.
O.J. No. L 80, 25.3.99, p.20.
O.J. No. L 333, 29.12.00, p.81.
O.J. No. L 234, 1.9.01, p.55.