The Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

The Welsh Ministers have been designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals(1).

Title, commencement, interpretation and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2008.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 17 July 2008.

(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” (“y prif Reoliadau”) means the Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Wales) Regulations 2008(2).

(4) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs—

(a)in regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the definition of “feed authority” for “section 67(1)” substitute “section 67(1A)”;

(b)in paragraph (1) of regulation 4 (enforcement) omit the words “or as the case may be district”; and

(c)in regulation 5 (applications of various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990) in paragraph (c) (which relates to section 32 — powers of entry) omit the words “or as the case may be district”.

Gwenda Thomas

Under authority of the Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

23 June 2008