UK Offence Report

The Hormonal Substances (Food Sources) (Animals) Regulations 1991

UK Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1593 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
1revoked
Made
5 July 1991
In force from
8 August 1991
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations enable an authorised officer of an enforcement authority (being the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to England and Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland)– 1 to give notice in writing to the person in charge of an animal requiring him to detain the animal at the place where it then is until it has been inspected in order to ascertain whether it contains a prohibited substance (regulation 4); 2 were it appears on such an inspection that a prohibited substance is present in an animal, to give notice in writing to the person in charge of the animal prohibiting any commercial operations from being carried out in respect of it and prohibiting it from being moved from the place where it has been detained until such notice is withdrawn (regulation 5); and 3 where it appears on further investigation that a prohibited substance is present in an animal, to give notice in writing to the person in charge of the animal requiring it to be slaughtered in a specified manner and within a specified period (regulation 6(1)). The Regulations also prohibit the sale for human consumption and the disposal for human or animal consumption of an animal which has been slaughtered under them (regulation 7). The contravention or failure to comply with any provision of a notice given by an authorised officer and the contravention of regulation 7 are offences in respect of which a person is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment to a fine (regulation 8). For the purposes of the Regulations– a “animals” means domestic animals of the bovine species, swine, sheep, goats, solipeds and poultry, and wild animals of those species and wild ruminants which have been raised on a holding, and b “prohibited substance” means any hormonal substance the administration to an animal of which is prohibited by reference to the Medicines (Stilbenes and Thyrostatic Substances) Regulations 1982 or the Medicines (Hormone Growth Promoters) (Prohibition of Use) Regulations 1988.

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