Statutory Rule 1998 No. 124

      Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

1998 No. 124

AGRICULTURE

Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

  Made 25th March 1998 
  Coming into operation 4th May 1998 

The Department of Agriculture, being a Department designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2)[2] of the European Communities Act 1972[3][4] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and sections 66(1), 68(1), 69(1), (3), (6) and (7), 74A[5], 84 and 86 of the Agriculture Act 1970[6] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation with such persons or organisations as appear to it to represent the interests concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations: - 

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 4th May 1998.

    (2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[7] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
     2. The Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995[8] shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 8.

     3. In regulation 2(1) (Interpretation) - 

    (a) after the definition of "ingredient" there shall be inserted the following definition - 

      " "mammalian meat and bone meal" means mammalian protein derived from the whole or part of any dead mammal by rendering, or, in the case of an imported product by an equivalent process;"; and

    (b) in the definition of "protein", after the word ""protein"" there shall be inserted the words ", subject to paragraph (1A),".

     4. After regulation 2(1) there shall be added the following paragraph - 

     5. In regulation 14 (Control of added substances contained in feeding stuffs) - 

     6. In Schedule 1 (Contents of the Statutory Statement) - 

 
Notes:

[1] S.I. 1972/1811back

[2] As read together with section 2(5) of the European Economic Area Act 1993back

[3] 1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to the Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.R. 1984 No. 253back

[4] The enabling powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)back

[5] Inserted by 1972 c. 68 section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph (6)back

[6] 1970 c. 40 as amended by S.I. 1982/980back

[7] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)back

[8] S.R. 1995 No. 451, as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 259back

[9] S.R. 1997 No. 231back


 
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