SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Weights and Measures &c. Act 1976 (c. 77)

20(1)In subsection (1) of section 12 of the Weights and Measures &c. Act 1976 (shortages of food and other goods), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a)section 16 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (“the 1990 Act”);”.

(2)In subsection (9) of that section—

(a)for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a)where it was imposed under the 1990 Act—

(i)the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting jointly in so far as it was imposed in relation to England and Wales; and

(ii)the Secretary of State in so far as it was imposed in relation to Scotland;”; and

(b)in paragraph (c), the words “the 1956 Act or” shall cease to have effect.

21In Schedule 6 to that Act (temporary requirements imposed by emergency orders), for paragraphs 2 and 3 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16)

2(1)This paragraph applies where the relevant requirement took effect under or by virtue of the Food Safety Act 1990.

(2)The following provisions of that Act—

(a)Part I (preliminary);

(b)Part III (administration and enforcement); and

(c)sections 40 to 50 (default powers and other supplemental provisions),

shall apply as if the substituted requirement were imposed by regulations under section 16 of that Act.”