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2005 No. 35
The Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety1, being a Department designated2 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19723 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and after consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety4; hereby makes the following Regulations;
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, and shall come into operation on 14th March 2005.
2
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19545 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Amendments to the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19953
1
The Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19956 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
2
For paragraph (2)(b) of regulation 13 (general conditions) there shall be substituted the following –
b
poultry meat which –
i
has not been eviscerated or has been obtained from the body of any bird which has not been eviscerated, or
ii
has been treated with an agent used specifically to promote water retention or has been obtained in technologically similar conditions and is likely as a result to present the same risk; or
3
For paragraph (9) of regulation 13 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –
9
Paragraph (2)(b)(i) shall not apply to partially eviscerated poultry (“effilé”).
Consequential amendment4
In the Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19987 in Schedule 2 (Regulations relevant to intra-Community trade) there shall be inserted at the end of paragraph 4
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 10th February 2005.
(This note is not part of the Regulations).