The Food Additives (England) (Amendment) and the Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2012

Made: 25th April 2012

Laid before Parliament: 30th April 2012

Coming into force: 23rd May 2012

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Title application and commencement

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Amendment of the Food Additives (England) Regulations 2009

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Amendment of the Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993

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Statutory review

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Anne Milton — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Health — 25th April 2012

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 16. Section 1(1) and (2) (definition of “food”) was substituted by S.I. 2004/2990. Sections 17 and 48 were amended by paragraphs 12 and 21 respectively of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c.28), “the 1999 Act”. Section 48 was also amended by S.I. 2004/2990. Section 26(3) was amended by Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act. Section 53(2) was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 16 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (1994 c.40), Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act, S.I. 2004/2990 and S.I. 2004/3279.

[^f00002]: Functions formerly exercisable by “the Ministers” (being, in relation to England and Wales and acting jointly, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales and, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State) are now exercisable in relation to England by the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act. Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the NationalAssembly for Wales by S.I.1999/672 as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act and subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c.32). Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46) as read with section 40(2) of the 1999 Act.

[^f00003]: 1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (2006, c.51) and amended by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (2008 c.7).

[^f00004]: OJ No.L31, 1.2.2002, p.1. That Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referredto in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p14).

[^f00005]: S.I. 2009/3238. These Regulations have been amended by S.I. 2011/258 and S.I. 2011/1456.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1993/1658. These Regulations have been amended by S.I. 1995/1440, S.I. 1998/2257 and, in relation to England only, by S.I. 2005/2626 and S.I. 2011/1738.

[^f00007]: OJ No. L354, 31.12.2008, p.16. This instrument was last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 232/2012 amending Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the conditions of use and the use levels for Quinoline Yellow (E 104), Sunset Yellow FCF/Orange Yellow S (E 110) and Poinceau 4R, Cochineal Red A (E 124) (OJ No. L78, 17.3.2012, p.1).

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