The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994

3.—(1) In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (approval of dispatch centres and purification centres)—

(a) in paragraph (1), after the words “area the dispatch centre” there shall be inserted the words “or purification centre”; and

(b) in paragraph 2(b) for the word “Parts” there shall be substituted the word “Sections”.

(2) For paragaph (4) of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(4) An approval in respect of a dispatch centre may only be granted if the food authority is satisfied that it meets such of the conditions set out in Sections I, II and IV of the Schedule to the Derogations Regulations as apply to it, save in so far as—

(a) there is in force in respect of that centre a derogation; and

(b) the terms on which that derogation was granted are complied with.

(4A) An approval in respect of a purification centre may only be granted if the food authority is satisfied that it meets such of the conditions specified in Sections I, II and III of the Schedule to the Derogations Regulations as apply to it, save in so far as—

(a) there is in force in respect of that centre any derogation; and

(b) the terms on which that derogation was granted are complied with,

and that it meets any additional conditions of which the food authority has been notified by the Ministers pursuant to paragraph (5).”.