The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 77(4), 78(6) and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970 and after consultation in accordance with section 84(1) of the said Act with such persons or organisations appearing to represent the interests concerned and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 6th April 2001.

• (2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999

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Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

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The Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 shall be amended as follows:

• (a) in regulation 11, for the words “not a feeding stuff", there shall be substituted the words “ neither a feeding stuff, nor a premixture to which Part A or Part B of Commission Directive 2000/45/EC establishing Community methods of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, vitamin E and trytophan in feedingstuffs applies ”; and

• (b) after regulation 11 there shall be added the following regulation–

(11A) For the purposes of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Act, analysis shall (as specified in regulation 7) be treated as carried out in the prescribed manner, in relation to a sample of a premixture to which Part A or Part B of Commission Directive 2000/45/EC establishing Community methods of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, vitamin E and tryptophan in feedingstuffs applies, if analysis is carried out in accordance with whichever of those Parts is applicable in the case concerned.

Signed

MALCOLM CHISHOLM — Authorised to sign on behalf of the Scottish Ministers — 2001-03-16

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

aamend the 1999 Regulations by prescribing a revised method of analysis for the determination of vitamin A, and new methods for the determination of vitamin E and tryptophan, in feeding stuffs and, in the cases of vitamin A and E, in premixtures (regulations 3 and 4); and

bmake consequential amendments the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 (regulation 5).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1970 c. 40; section 66(1) was amended by the Agriculture Act 1970 Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980), the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1412), the Fertilisers (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1342) and the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1663). Section 66(1) contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The function conferred upon Ministers of the Crown by section 2(2) so far as within devolved competence, was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1999/1663; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00004]: O.J. No. L 174, 13.7.00, p.32.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1999/3235, amended by S.I. 2000/2481

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999

Editorial notes

[^c15921971]: 1970 c.40; section 66(1) was amended by the Agriculture Act 1970 Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980), the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1412), the Fertilisers (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1342) and the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1663). Section 66(1) contains definitions of “prescribed" and “regulations". The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

[^c15921981]: 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The function conferred upon Ministers of the Crown by section 2(2) so far as within devolved competence, was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

[^c15922011]: S.I. 1999/3235, amended by S.I. 2000/2481

[^key-590ba9b360aba78968c817d1a66577ea]: Regulations revoked in part (1.1.2006) by The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/608), regs. 1(1), 37, sch. 3

[^key-19fae6960d271de50d4661afc199e667]: Regs. 2-4 revoked (15.11.2010) by The Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/354), regs. 1, 24(b)