AGRICULTURE Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 14th July 2003. 2 The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) Regulations 1999 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 In regulation 10 (modification of section 76 of the Agriculture Act 1970) – a “(as specified in regulation 7)” shall be omitted; b for the modified version of subsection (8) of section 76 of the Agriculture Act 1970 which is set out in that regulation there shall be substituted the following subsection — 8 Subject to subsections (9), (10) and (12) of this section, an inspector entering premises by virtue of this section, or of a warrant issued under it, shall have the right to take on those premises a sample of any material appearing to him to be a controlled product other than relevant material as described in subsection (7) of this section, in the like manner as that prescribed in Part II of Schedule 1 to the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999. ; c immediately after the modified version of section (8) of section 76 of that Act as so set out there shall be inserted the following subsection – 8A For the purposes of this Part of this Act a sample taken in accordance with subsection (8) of this section shall be deemed to be taken in the prescribed manner. ; and d in the modified version of subsection (9) of section 76 of that Act as so set out for “subsection (8)” there shall be inserted “subsections (8) and (10)”. 12 For regulations 11 and 11A (modification of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Agriculture Act 1970) there shall be substituted the following regulations – Analysis for the purposes of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Agriculture Act 1970 11 For the purpose of the enforcement and administration of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 , analysis in relation to a sample of a product which falls to be inspected pursuant to Directive 95/53 but is not – a a feeding stuff; b 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 feeding stuffs applies; or c a feed material to which Annex II to Commission Directive 2002/70/EC establishing requirements for the determination of levels of dioxins and dioxin–like PCBs in feeding stuffs applies, shall be treated as carried out in the prescribed manner for the purposes of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Act if — d where there is an applicable standard of the kind referred to in the first indent of Article 18.3 of Directive 95/53, analysis is carried out in accordance with that standard; and e where there is no such standard, analysis is carried out in accordance with any scientifically valid method the application of which does not contravene any general principle of the Treaty establishing the European Community. 11A For the purpose of the enforcement and administration of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, analysis 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 feeding stuffs applies shall be treated as carried out in the prescribed manner for the purposes of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Act if it is carried out in accordance with whichever of those Parts is applicable in the case concerned. 11B For the purpose of the enforcement and administration of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, analysis in relation to a sample of a feed material to which Annex II to Directive 2002/70/EC establishing requirements for the determination of levels of dioxins and dioxin–like PCBs in feeding stuffs applies shall be treated as carried out in the prescribed manner for the purposes of sections 77(4) and 78(6) of the Act if it is carried out in accordance with the requirements specified in that Annex. . 13 In each of regulations 12 (modification of section 83 of the Agriculture Act 1970) and 13 (modification of section 86 of the Agriculture Act 1970), “(as specified in regulation 7)” shall be omitted. Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 3rd June 2003. W. B. Smith A Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety