The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 994

FOOD

The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations 1998

Made

6th April 1998

Laid before Parliament

8th April 1998

Coming into force

29th April 1998

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales acting jointly in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1), 17(1), 18(1)(c), 26(1)(b) and (3), 48(1) and 49(2) of, and paragraphs 2(2), 5(1) and (2), 6(1) and 7(1) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990(1), and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting jointly, being Ministers designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(3) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and in each case in exercise of all other powers respectively enabling them in that behalf, after consultation (so far as is required by section 48(4) of the Food Safety Act 1990) with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected, hereby make the following Regulations—

(1)

1990 c. 16; section 6(4) of the 1990 Act was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40). See section 4(1) of the 1990 Act, which contains a defintion of “the Ministers” which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(3)

1972 c. 68.