The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2003

2.  For the definition of “local authority” in regulation 2(1) of the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2003(1) there shall be substituted the following—

““local authority” means—

(a)

where there is a port health authority, that port health authority;

(b)

where there is no port health authority, but where there is a unitary authority, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(2), that unitary authority;

(c)

where there is no port health authority and no unitary authority—

(i)

in a metropolitan or a non-metropolitan district, the council of that district; and

(ii)

in each London borough, the council of that borough;

(d)

in the City of London, the Common Council; and

(e)

in the Isles of Scilly, the Council of the Isles of Scilly;”.

(1)

S.I. 2003/3177.

(2)

S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.