This Statutory Rule has been made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2013 No. 229 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Rule
2013 No. 296
Food
The Contaminants in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 15(1), 16(1) and (2), 25(1)(a) and 3 and 47(2) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 19912.
In accordance with Article 47(3A) of that Order, it has had regard to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency.
Citation and commencement1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Contaminants in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and come into operation on 17th January 2014.
Amendment of the Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20132.
(1)
The Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20133 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2)
For regulation 2(3) substitute—
“(3)
Subject to regulation 2(4), any reference to an EU instrument is a reference to it as amended at the date of making these Regulations.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 12th December 2013.
Linda Devlin
A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make a minor amendment to regulation 2(3) of the Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013 No. 229) in order to correct an error therein.