The Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients (Amendment) (England) Regulations 1999

Amendment of previous regulations

2.  The Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997(1), insofar as they apply to England, shall be amended by the insertion of “—(1)” immediately before the text of regulation 6 (application of various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990) and the insertion of the following paragraph at the end of that regulation:

“(2) Section 25(3) (other than paragraph (b)) and (4) of the Act (which restricts disclosure) shall apply to information submitted to the Minister as part of a request made by reference to Article 4.1, as it applies to information relating to an individual business obtained by means of an order under section 25(1) of the Act; its application to information so submitted is subject to such modifications as are necessary for a disclosure in contravention of section 25(3) to be a breach of duty owed to the person who submitted the information but not an offence.”.

(1)

S.I. 1997/1335, amended by S.I. 1999/1756.