The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000

Modification of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

29.  In the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999(1)—

(a)in regulation 7(2) and (4), the references to “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995”, shall have effect in relation to England as if they read “the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000”,

(b)in regulation 8, the reference to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 shall have effect in relation to England as if it were a reference to those Regulations as amended by the Feedingstuffs (Zootechnical Products) Regulations 1999 and as modified by these Regulations;

(c)regulation 9 shall have effect in relation to England as if, for the provisions of that regulation, there were substituted the following provisions:

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

9.  In England, 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 Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Health is of the opinion that, in any area covered by an enforcement authority, the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 or section 73 or 73A of the 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,

he may appoint one or more inspectors to exercise the powers exercisable by inspectors appointed by the authority in question, and any expenses certified by him as having been incurred by him under this subsection shall be repaid to him on demand by that authority.”(2)(3)(4); and”

(d)regulation 10 shall, in so far as it modifies section 76 in relation to England, be read as if, in that section as so modified—

(i)in subsections (8), (9) and (10), the references to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 were references to those Regulations as amended by the Feedingstuffs (Zootechnical Products) Regulations 1999 and as modified by these Regulations, and

(ii)for the references in subsection 17 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 there were substituted references to these Regulations.