2016 No. 24
Food

The Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(4), 16(1)(a), (e) and (f), 26(1)(a) and (3) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 19901 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
They have had regard to relevant advice given by Food Standards Scotland in accordance with section 48(4A) of the Food Safety Act 19902.
There has been consultation as required by Article 9 of the Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety3.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 and come into force on 25th February 2016.

Amendment to the Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Regulations 20142.

In regulation 7 (application and modification of other provisions of the Act) of the Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Regulations 20144, after paragraph (d) insert—

“(da)

section 22 (defence of publication in the course of business);”.

MAUREEN WATT
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (“2014 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends regulation 7 of the 2014 Regulations by inserting a reference to section 22 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (defence of publication in the course of business). The effect of the amendment is that the defence provided for in section 22 applies for the purposes of the 2014 Regulations.

This instrument makes a single technical amendment to the 2014 Regulations and the content of these Regulations were fully consulted on during the development of the 2014 Regulations.

No business and regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations as no impact upon business, charities or voluntary bodies is foreseen.