Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendments to the Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

5.  In regulation 4 (recognition as natural mineral water) –

(a) in paragraph (2) –

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), “or” shall be deleted,

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) there shall be added at the end “or”, and

(iii) after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph –

“(c) that the content of the water is not in accordance with paragraph 2(c) in Part I or, as the case may be, paragraph 2(c) in Part II, of Schedule 1,”;

(b) for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(5) Upon the grant or withdrawal pursuant to this regulation, by a district council, of recognition for the purposes of Article 1, the district council concerned shall immediately inform the Agency of such grant or withdrawal.”; and

(c) after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“(7A) Upon receiving notification of any change to the trade description of a natural mineral water, or to the name of the spring from which a natural mineral water has been extracted, the district council concerned shall immediately inform the Agency of that change.”.