1. These Regulations may be cited as the Poultry Meat (Hygiene)(Scotland)Amendment Regulations 1993 shall apply to Scotland only and shall come into force on 5th March 1993.
2. Regulations 4(b), 5(a), 6, 11 and 12 of the Poultry Meat (Hygiene)(Scotland)Amendment Regulations 1992(1) are hereby revoked.
3. The Poultry Meat (Hygiene)(Scotland)Regulations 1976(2) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
4. In regulations 12, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 30 in each place where they occur for the words “local authority” there shall be substituted the words “food authority”.
5. In regulation 3 (sale of poultry meat), in paragraphs (1)(a)(i) and (1)(b)(i)—
(a)for the words “licensed by a food authority” there shall be substituted the words “licensed by the Secretary of State”; and
(b)after the word “supervised” there shall be inserted “by a food authority”.
6. In regulation 4(1) (exemptions), for the words “the food authority”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “the Secretary of State”.
7. In regulation 11(2) (slaughterhouses and cutting premises to be licensed) for the words “the food authority” there shall be substituted the words “the Secretary of State”.
8. In regulation 12(2) (licences and application for licences) for the words “sub paragraph (6)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (6)”.
9. In regulation 16 (right to continue to use premises pending appeal) for the words “a food authority to cancel” there shall be substituted the words “the Secretary of State to refuse a licence or to revoke” and for the words “the food authority was given” there shall be substituted the words “the Secreatry of State was given”.
10. In regulation 17 (temporary continuance of licence on death) for the words “the food authority” there shall be substituted the words “the Secretary of State”.
11. In regulation 22 (validity of licences)—
(a)paragraph (2) shall be deleted; and
(b)in paragraph (4) the words “or a partnership” shall be inserted after the word “corporate”.
Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St. Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
9th February 1993