The Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) (Revocation) (England) Regulations 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 690

Food, England

The Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) (Revocation) (England) Regulations 2012

Made

4th March 2012

Laid before Parliament

8th March 2012

Coming into force

6th April 2012

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(6) of the Food Safety Act 1990(1) and now vested in him(2).

As required by Article 9 of 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 safety(3) there has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation and evaluation of these Regulations.

Title application and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) (Revocation) (England) Regulations 2012, apply in relation to England only and come into force on 6th April 2012.

Revocation

2.  The Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) Regulations 1987(4) are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Paul Burstow

Minister of State,

Department of Health

4th March 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations revoke the Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/133).

2.  A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on business or the public or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

(1)

1990 c.16.

(2)

Functions formerly exercisable by “the Ministers” (being, in relation to England and Wales and acting jointly, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales and, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State) are now exercisable in relation to England by the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c.28). Functions of “the Ministers” so far as exercisable in relation to Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act, and subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c.32). Those functions so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c.46) as read with section 40(2) of the 1999 Act.

(3)

OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p.14).

(4)

S.I. 1987/133, amended by S.I. 1990/2486.