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Enforcement and penalties

6.  For the purposes of the Import and Export Regulations—

(a)the requirements set out in regulations 3 and 4 shall be treated as health conditions (whether or not they are health conditions, as defined in the Import and Export Regulations(1)) and

(b)those conditions shall be enforced as health conditions—

(i)by a local authority or the Minister (or by an authorised officer of the local authority or the Minister), whichever has the responsibility under the Import and Export Regulations for enforcing health conditions in the particular circumstances of the case,

(ii)in accordance with the procedures set out in the Import and Export Regulations, and

(iii)subject to the penalties and other sanctions set out in the Import and Export Regulations.

(1)

See regulation 1(2) of those Regulations.