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Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 1547

The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 1547

FOOD
FOOD SAFETY

The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Made13th June 1996
Laid before Parliament14th June 1996
Coming into force8th July 1996

    The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales, acting jointly in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1), 17(1), 18(1)(c), 26(3), 48(1) and 49(2) of the Food Safety Act 1990[1], and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting jointly, 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 Community, in the exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and in each case in exercise of all other powers respectively enabling them in that behalf, after consultation (so far as is required by section 48(4) of the Food Safety Act 1990) with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected, hereby make the following Regulations:—
    Citation and commencement
        1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 8th July 1996.
    Amendment of the Food Safety (Fishery Products) Regulations 1992
        2.    The Food Safety (Fishery Products) Regulations 1992[4] shall be amended as specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
    Amendment of the Food Safety (Fishery Products on Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1992
        3.    In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the Food Safety (Fishery Products on Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1992[5] (interpretation) for the definition of "fishery products" there shall be substituted the following definition —
      ""fishery products" has the same meaning as in the Food Safety (Fishery Products) Regulations 1992;".
    Amendment of the Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994
        4.    The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994[6] shall be amended as specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
    Amendment of the Food Safety (Fishery Products) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994
        5.    The Food Safety (Fishery Products) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994[7] shall be amended as specified in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.
    Revocations
        6.    The Regulations specified in column (l) of Schedule 4 to these Regulations are hereby revoked to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.



Tony Baldry

Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

13th June 1996
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Cumberlege

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health

6th June 1996
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jonathan Evans

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

6th June 1996

George Kynoch

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

6th June 1996





Notes:

[1] 1990 c. 16; section 4(1) of the Act contains a definition of "the Ministers" which is relevant to the powers being exercised in the making of these Regulations.

[2] S.I. 1972/1811.

[3] 1972 c. 68.

[4] S.I. 1992/3163; amended by S.I. 1994/2783.

[5] S.I. 1992/3165, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[6] S.I. 1994/2782.

[7] S.I. 1994/2783.

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