Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety acting in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 68(1), (1A) and (3), 69(1), (3), (6) and (7), 70(1), 73(3), 74(1), 74A, 77(4), 78(6), 84 and 86 of the Agriculture Act 19701 (as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20002) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, after consultation with such persons or ogranisations as appear to it to represent the interests concerned, and being a Department designated3 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19724 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community and measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2)5 (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers in the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: