Welsh Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 1850 (W.200)
AGRICULTURE, WALES
The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003
Made
16th July 2003
Coming into force
Regulations 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9 and 11 and 13 to 20
1st August 2003
Regulations 6,10 and 12
6th November 2003
The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 66(1), 68(1) and (1A), 69(1), 74A, 75(1), 76(1), and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1) (as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000(2) and articles 2 and 6 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002(3)), after consultation as required by section 84(1) of that Act and by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(4), and being designated(5) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that last mentioned section (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers in the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), makes the following Regulations:
1970 c. 40. Section 66(1) contains definitions of the expressions “the Ministers”, “prescribed” and “regulations”. The definition of “the Ministers” was amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272), Schedule 5, paragraph 1. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672.
OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1. Under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) 178/2002 “food law” extends to feed produced for, or fed to, food producing animals.