FOOD Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Drinking Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1998. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations— “the Council Regulation ” means Council Regulation ( EC ) No. 2597/97 laying down additional rules on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products for drinking milk ; “ the Order ” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991; “sell” includes possess for sale, and offer, expose or advertise for sale. Sale or delivery of milk and use of sales descriptions 3 No person shall sell or deliver milk, or use or omit to use a sales description for any product, in contravention of Article 2 of the Council Regulation (as read with Article 3 of that Regulation and, after 31st December 1998, as read also with Article 4 of that Regulation). Importation of products from outside the European Community for sale as drinking milk 4 No person shall import into Northern Ireland from outside the European Community any product for sale as drinking milk in contravention of Article 5 of the Council Regulation. Enforcement 5 Each district council shall enforce and execute these Regulations within its district. Offences and penalty provision 6 If any person contravenes regulation 3 or 4 he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. Defence in relation to exports 7 In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove— a that the product in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that such product complies with that legislation; and b in the case of export to another member State, that the legislation complies with the Council Regulation. Application of provisions of the Order 8 The following provisions of the Order shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations and any reference in those provisions to the Order shall be construed as a reference to these Regulations— a Articles 2(4) and 3 (extended meaning of “sale” etc. ); b Article 4 (presumptions that food intended for human consumption); c Article 19 (offences due to fault of another person); d Article 20 (defence of due diligence) as it applies for the purposes of Article 7, 13 or 14 of the Order; e Article 30(8) (which relates to documentary evidence); f Article 34 (obstruction, etc., of officers); g Article 36 (punishment of offences) in so far as it relates to offences under Article 34(1) and (2). Revocations 9 The statutory provisions specified in the Schedule are hereby revoked to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule. Amendments 10 1 In the Dairy Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 , in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “drinking milk” there shall be substituted— “drinking milk”— in relation to cows' milk, has the meaning given by Article 1(2)( b ) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2597/97 laying down additional rules on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products for drinking milk; and in relation to other milk, means milk intended for delivery as such to the ultimate consumer; . 2 In the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 , in regulation 2(1) (interpretation)— a in the definition of “raw milk”, for the words from “Article 3.1 of” to “as amended” there shall be substituted “Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2597/97 laying down additional rules on the common organisation of the market in milk and milk products for drinking milk”; b in the definitions of “semi-skimmed milk”, “skimmed-milk” and “whole milk”, for the words from “Article 3.1 of” to the end in each case there shall be substituted “Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2597/97 ”. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on W. B. Smith Assistant Secretary 15th October 1998.