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1999 No. 3464 (W.52)
FOOD, WALES
The Beef Bones (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 1999
In the exercise of powers conferred on Ministers of the Crown by sections 16(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (f) and (3), 26 and 48(1) of, and paragraphs 2(1), 3(1), 5(1) and 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990[1], and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales[ name="n2">2], and after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of that Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the following Regulations, the National Assembly for Wales makes the following Regulations:
Citation, application and commencement
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Beef Bones (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 1999, shall apply to Wales only and shall come into force on 17th December 1999.
Amendments to the Beef Bones Regulations 1997
2.
- (1) In so far as they apply to Wales, the Beef Bones Regulations 1997[3] are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) The following regulation is substituted for regulation 3 (bone-in beef) -
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Bone-in beef
3.
- (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, no person shall use any bone-in beef in the preparation in the course of a business of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to the use of bone-in beef in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the production takes place, including the case where the sale involves delivery of take-away food.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall prohibit the processing or treatment of bone-in beef for sale as such.".
(3) The following regulation is substituted for regulation 4 (bones) -
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Bones
4.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (3) below, no person shall sell any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain for use in the preparation in the course of a business of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(2) Subject to paragraph (4) below, no person shall use any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain in the preparation in the course of a business of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(3) The prohibition in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to the sale of bones for use in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the production takes place, including the case where the sale to the ultimate consumer involves delivery of take-away food.
(4) The prohibition in paragraph (2) above shall not apply to the use of bones in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the production takes place, including the case where the sale involves delivery of take-away food.".
(4) The following regulation is substituted for regulation 5 (food and food ingredients) -
(5) Regulation 6 (deboning) is revoked.
(6) The following regulation is substituted for regulation 7 (storage of bones) -
(7) Regulation 8 (disposal of bones) is revoked.
(8) The following regulation is substituted for regulation 9 (records) -
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[4].
Jane Davidson
Deputy Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales
16th December 1999
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1.
These Regulations amend the Beef Bones Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2959) in so far as they apply to Wales.
2.
The amendments have effect to permit -
3
These Regulations do not have effect to lift the ban on the use of bones for manufactured and processed products.
4.
These Regulations make a number of consequential amendments to S.I. 1997/2959 and in particular change the existing provision (regulation 7) relating to the storage of bones. They also change the existing provision (regulation 9) relating to the keeping of records.
Notes:
[1]
1990 c.16; "the Ministers" is defined in section 4(1) of the Act.back
[2]
See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back
[3]
S.I. 1997/2959back
[4]
1998 c.38. href="#n4">back
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