Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 2014

The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989

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1989 No. 2014

AGRICULTURE

The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 68(1), (1A) and (3), 69(1), (3), (6) and (7), 70(1), 73(3), 74(1), 74A and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970^[1] and now vested in them^[2] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 84(1) of the said Act with such persons or organisations as appear to them to represent the interests concerned, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated^[3] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^[4] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise 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:-

Title and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989, and shall come into force on 1st December 1989.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988
    2.    The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988^[5] are hereby amended as prescribed in regulations 3 and 4.

    3.—(1)  In regulation 6, after paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

    "(4)  In this regulation "a prescribed description" means a description prescribed by regulation 4."


    (2)  In regulation 9(1) the words "of a prescribed description" shall be deleted.

    (3)  In regulation 15(1) and (3) the words from "and it shall be proof of an offence" to the end of each paragraph shall be deleted.

    (4)  In regulation 16(1), after the words "for use as a feeding stuff" there shall be inserted the words "or use as a feeding stuff".

    (5)  Regulations 1(2) and 17 shall be deleted.

    4.—(1)  


    15.    In the particulars required or permitted to be contained in the statutory statement by paragraphs 8 to 13 above-


"(a)  unless the paragraph in question specifies some other method of expression, the amounts shown shall be expressed in each case as a definite percentage by weight of the feeding stuff as such, and not as a range of percentages, and



(b)  phosphorus shall be expressed as “phosphorus P" .



In Schedule 1, for paragraph 15 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:
    (2)  In Part II of Schedule 4 "PERMITTED COLOURANTS"), in the provision relating to canthaxanthin for trout and salmon in column 5 ("maximum content"), for the expression "100: alone or together with astaxanthin" there shall be substituted the figure "80".

    (3)  In Part IV of Schedule 4 ("PERMITTED BINDERS, ANTI-CAKING AGENTS AND COAGULANTS"), in CHAPTER B-


(a)  in the provisions relating to bentonite and montmorillonite, to the list of antibiotic growth promoters and coccidiostats permitted by the conditions in column 5 to be mixed with feeding stuffs and ingredients in the presence of these additives there shall be added nicarbazine and robenidine, and


(b)  after the provisions relating to calcium sulphate dihydrate there shall be inserted the following provisions:

E599

Perlite

All species of animals

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All feeding stuffs


    (4)  In Part V of Schedule 4 ("VITAMINS, PRO-VITAMINS AND SUBSTANCES HAVING A SIMILAR EFFECT"), at the head of CHAPTER A there shal be inserted the following provisions:

E672	Vitamin A	Chickens for fattening	20,000
		Other species or categories of animals	No limit



    (5)  Part VI of Schedule 4 ("TRACE ELEMENTS") shall be deleted and there shall be substituted therefor the contents of Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations.

    (6)  Item 3 of Schedule 7 ("Amino acids and their salts") shall be deleted and there shall be substituted therefor the contents of Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
16th October 1989.

L.S.
John Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food


Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

11th October 1989

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

18th October 1989

[1] 1970 c. 40; section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 6, and the Act was amended by the Agriculture Act 1970 Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980). back

[2] In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272. back

[3] S.I. 1972/1811. back

[4] 1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to the Act and is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with section 40 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), and as regards Scotland, with sections 289F and 289G of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), which were inserted by section 54 of the said Act of 1982. back

[5] S.I. 1988/396. back

Explanatory Note