Detention of Food (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1990

Made: 19th December 1990

Laid before Parliament: 20th December 1990

Coming into force: 10th January 1991

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales acting jointly as respects England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 49(2) of the Food Safety Act 1990[^f00001], after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations in accordance with section 48(4)(a) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Detention of Food (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 10th January 1991.

Forms prescribed for certain purposes

2

The form of a document used for the purposes of the Food Safety Act 1990 and referred to in a numbered paragraph in the table of contents in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations is hereby prescribed as being that set out in the correspondingly numbered form in Part II of that Schedule.

SCHEDULE — FORMS

PART I — TABLE OF CONTENTS

1

Notice given by an authorised officer under section 9(3)(a) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (“Detention of food notice”).

2

Notice authorised or required by section 9(4)(a) of that Act, or by a code of practice issued under section 40(1) of that Act, to be given for the purposes of informing a person that a detention of food notice is withdrawn (“Withdrawal of detention of food notice”).

3

Notice authorised or required by section 9(5) of that Act, or by a code of practice issued under section 40(1) of that Act, to be given for the purpose of informing a person in charge of food of the intention of an authorised officer to have food dealt with by a justice of the peace, or in Scotland a sheriff or magistrate (“A food condemnation warning notice”).

PART II

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed this 19th day of December 1990.

Trumpington — Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

William Waldegrave — Secretary of State for Health — 19th December 1990

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 19th December 1990

Ian Lang — Secretary of State for Scotland — 19th December 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the forms of notice which may be used in connection with the detention of food under section 9 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (regulation 2).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 16. Section 4(1) provides a definition of “the Ministers” upon whom the power to make these Regulations is conferred.