This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1992/2036 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
FOOD
Made
2nd February 1993
Laid before Parliament
12th February 1993
Coming into force
5th March 1993
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4(1), 6(4), 16(1)(b), (c), (d) and (f), 19(1)(b), 26, 37(2), 48(1) of, and paragraph 2(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf; the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(3) in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise, (so far as is required for the amendment and revocation of regulations made under the said section 2(2)) of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of the said Act of 1990 with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations (in so far as the Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said sections of the said Act of 1990):-
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Poultry Meat (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 5th March 1993.
2. Regulations 4(b), 5(a), 6, 11 and 12 of the Poultry Meat (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1992(4) are hereby revoked.
3. The Poultry Meat (Hygiene) Regulations 1976(5) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
4. In regulations 12, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 30 in each place where they occur, for the words "local authority" there shall be substituted the words "food authority".
5. In regulation 3 (sale of poultry meat) in paragraphs (1)(a)(i) and (1)(b)(i)-
(a)for the words "licensed by a food authority" there shall be substituted the words "licensed by the Minister"; and
(b)after the word "supervised" there shall be inserted the words "by a food authority".
6. In regulation 4(1) (exemptions) for the words "the food authority" in both places where they occur there shall be substituted the words "the Minister".
7. In regulation 11(2) (slaughterhouses and cutting premises to be licensed) for the words "the food authority" there shall be substituted the words "the Minister".
8. In regulation 16 (right to continue to use premises pending appeal) for the words "a food authority to cancel" there shall be substituted the words "the Minister to refuse a licence or to revoke" and for the words "the food authority was given" there shall be substituted the words "the Minister was given".
9. In regulation 17 (temporary continuance of licence on death) for the words "the food authority" there shall be substituted the words "the Minister".
10. In regulation 21(a) (information to be provided by food authorities) for the words "such information relating the execution of its duties" there shall be substituted "such information relating to the execution of its duties".
11. In regulation 22 (validity of licences), paragraph (2) shall be deleted.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1st February 1993.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Cumberlege
Secretary of State for Health
1st February 1993
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
2nd February 1993
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Poultry Meat (Hygiene) Regulations 1976. The Regulations revoke regulations 4(b), 5(a), 6, 11 and 12 of the Poultry Meat (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 because they wrongly referred to a local authority and not to a food authority. In addition to some minor and drafting amendments, these Regulations amend the new provisions inserted by the 1992 Regulations to the extent that they also wrongly referred to a local authority and not to a food authority.
1990 c. 16; "the Minister" is defined in section 4(1) of the Act.
S.I. 1972/1811.
S.I. 1992/2036.