Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 375
FOOD, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Food (Peanuts from Egypt) (Emergency Control) (England and Wales) Order 2000
Made
21st February 2000
Laid before Parliament
22nd February 2000
Coming into force
23rd February 2000
Whereas it appears to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that the import of peanuts originating in, or consigned from, Egypt may, save as permitted by the following Order, involve imminent risk of injury to health,
Now therefore the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 6(4), 13(1) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1990 c. 16; “the Minister” is defined in section 4(2); section 6(4) of the Act was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40). See also paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38).