Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

4.  In regulation 15 (which deals with undesirable substances)—

(a) for paragraphs (3) to (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(3) A person shall not put into circulation any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 5, which contains any substance specified in column 1 of that Part in excess of the maximum content specified in relation thereto in column 3 thereof.

(4) Subject to paragraph (4A), a person shall not put into circulation any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 5, or in column 2 of Chapter B of that Part, which contains any substance specified in relation to the material in question in the corresponding entry in column 1 of the Chapter in question, in excess of the maximum content specified in relation to the corresponding feed material in column 3 of Part I of that Schedule, unless the feed material put into circulation—

(a) is intended for use only on—

(i) a UK approved or permitted Article 2.2(d) establishment,

(ii) a UK approved or permitted Article 2.2(f) establishment,

(iii) an EC approved or permitted Article 2.2(d) establishment, or

(iv) an EC approved or permitted Article 2.2(f) establishment, and

(b) is accompanied by a document stating—

(i) that it is intended for use by such establishments,

(ii) that it may not be fed unprocessed to livestock, and

(iii) the amount of the specified substance contained in it,

or is intended for supply by way of export to a third country.

(4A) For the purposes of paragraph (4), a UK or EC establishment shall not be considered an approved establishment unless—

(a) in the case of a UK establishment, it is included in the most recently published national list (if any),

(b) in the case of an EC establishment, it is included in the most recently published list (if any) equivalent in the Member State concerned to the national list.

(5) A person shall not mix with any feeding stuff or feed material, any feed material specified in column 2 of Chapter A of Part II of Schedule 5, if the feed material so specified contains any substance specified in the corresponding entry in column 1 of that Part in excess of the maximum content specified in relation thereto in column 3 thereof.

(6) A person shall not put into circulation any feed material unless it is—

(a) sound and genuine, and

(b) of merchantable quality.”.

(b) in paragraphs (7), (9) and (10), for the expression “ingredient”, wherever it appears, there shall be substituted the expression “feed material”, with any immediately preceding indefinite article changed consequentially;

(c) paragraph (8) shall be deleted.