Statutory Instruments
FOOD
Made
2nd October 1998
Laid before Parliament
2nd October 1998
Coming into force
7th October 1998
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 1990(1), 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:
1. 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.
2.—(1) The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations 1998(2) 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 Brown
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1st October 1998
Frank Dobson
Secretary of State for Health
1st October 1998
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
2nd October 1998
Donald Dewar
Secretary of State, Scottish Office
2nd October 1998
(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.
1990 c. 16; “the Ministers” is defined in section 4(1) of the Act.
S.I. 1998/2405.