The Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

17.  The Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999(1) shall be amended as follows in relation to Wales —

(a) in regulation 7(2) and (4), for the references to “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995” there shall be substituted references to “the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 as amended by the Feeding Stuffs and Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001”;

(b) for regulation 9, there shall be substituted the following provisions:

“Modification of section 67(8) of the Agriculture Act 1970

9.   In relation to Wales, section 67(8) of the Act shall (as specified in regulation 7) have effect as if, for the provisions of that subsection, there were substituted the following provisions:

“(8) If the National Assembly for Wales is of the opinion that, in any area covered by an enforcement authority, the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001, (as amended by the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001), or section 73 or 73A of this Act, have been —

(a) insufficiently enforced or administered by the authority concerned, or

(b) enforced or administered by it without sufficient regard to the requirements of Council Directive 95/53/EC fixing the principles governing the organisation of official inspections in the field of animal nutrition, as amended by Council Directive 1999/20/EC,

it may appoint one or more inspectors to exercise the powers exercisable by inspectors appointed by the authority in question, and any expenses certified by it as having been incurred by it under this subsection shall be repaid to it on demand by that authority.”(2); and

(c) in regulation 10, in subsection (17) of section 76 of the Agriculture Act 1970 as modified by that regulation, for the references to “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995” there shall be substituted references to “the Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001 as amended by the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001”.”

(1)

S.I. 1999/2325. Modified (in relation to England and Wales) by S.I. 2000/656 and (in relation to Wales) by S.I. 2001/343.

(2)

The reference for Council Directive 95/53/EC is OJ No. L265, 8.11.95, p.17. The reference for Council Directive 1999/20/EC is OJ No. L80, 25.3.99, p.20.