1998 No. 2431

FOOD

The Specified Risk Material (Coming into Force Date) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland acting in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 16(1)(a), (b), (e) and (f), 26(1)(b) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 19901, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of that Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Regulations, now make the same:

Title and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Coming into Force Date) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 7th October 1998.

Amendment to the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations 19982

1

The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations 19982 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2) of this regulation.

2

In regulation 1 (title and commencement) there is substituted for the date “19th October” the date “8th October”.

Nick BrownMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Frank DobsonSecretary of State for Health

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Jon Owen JonesParliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
Donald DewarSecretary of State, Scottish Office

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1

These Regulations amend the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I.1998/2405).

2

The amendment is that those Regulations (themselves amending the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 (S.I.1997/2965, as already amended by S.I.1997/3062)) are now to come into force on 8th October 1998, not 19th October 1998.

3

No regulatory appraisal has been prepared for these Regulations.