Title and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Caseins and Caseinates (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.

Interpretation2

In these Regulations the expression “the principal Regulations” means the Caseins and Caseinates Regulations 19853 and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein to a numbered regulation or to a Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation so numbered in or to the Schedule to the principal Regulations.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3

The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 4 to 7 of these Regulations.

4

At the end of regulation 2 there shall be added the following regulation:

2A

Any reference in Part III of the Schedule to a “method” identified by a number shall be construed as a reference to the method of analysis for casein products described under that number in, and as read with the General Provisions of, Annex II to First Commission Directive 85/503/EEC4.

5

After regulation 6 there shall be added the following regulation:

Sampling6A

In relation to the sampling of casein products for analysis–

a

the powers of a sampling officer or of an officer of the Minister’s department under section 78 or 83 respectively of the Food Act 1984 to procure samples, and

b

the duty of a sampling officer or of an officer of the Minister’s department under section 80 or 83 respectively of and Part I of Schedule 7 to that Act to deal with samples,

shall be exercised and performed in accordance with the methods laid down in the Annex to First Commission Directive 86/424/EEC5.

6

Regulation 10 (amendment of the Food Labelling Regulations 1984) shall be revoked.

7

For Part III of the Schedule there shall be substituted the Part III set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendment of the Food Labelling Regulations 19848

As the first item in Schedule 3 (Generic names in list of ingredients) to the Food Labelling Regulations 19846, there shall be inserted, in Column 1, the word “Caseinates.” and, in Column 2, the words “Any type of caseinate”.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 5th December 1989.

John Selwyn GummerMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Kenneth ClarkeSecretary of State for Health
Peter WalkerSecretary of State for Wales