Food Standards Act 1999

44 (1) Section 42 of the Environment Act 1995 (approval of charging schemes) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3)(b)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (i) for the words “Minister” and “his” there shall be substituted respectively the words “Food Standards Agency” and “its”; and

(b) sub-paragraph (ii) shall be omitted.

(3) In subsection (4)—

(a) for the words “Minister’s or the Secretary of State's” there shall be substituted the words “Food Standards Agency's”;

(b) in paragraph (b), for the words from “the Minister” to “be” there shall be substituted the words “or the Food Standards Agency”.

(4) In subsection (7), the words from “and, if” to the end shall cease to have effect.

(5) In subsection (9)—

(a) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the words “such of the costs and expenses incurred by the Food Standards Agency as fall within subsection (3) above”; and

(b) for the words from “to the Secretary” to the end there shall be substituted the words “to the Food Standards Agency”.

(6) In subsection (10), for the words from “paragraph (a) or” to the end there shall be substituted the words “that subsection shall be determined by the Secretary of State.”