The Imported Food and Feedingstuffs (Safeguards against Cholera) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

UK Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 2934 — creates 3 criminal offences.

3offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 23 December 1991
In force from: 29 January 1992
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under: European Communities Act 1972, 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 provide for the enforcement and execution in Great Britain of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3185/91 made by the Council of the European Communities adopting protective measures for the import of fruit and vegetables from certain countries affected by cholera (OJ No L 303, pp 1—5, 1.11.91). Article 1 of that Regulation specifies the fruit and vegetables to which it applies. The Regulations also amend the provisions contained in the Imported Food and Feedingstuffs (Safeguards against Cholera) Regulations 1991 relating to the re-export of fish from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, thereby giving effect to the Decision 91/541/EEC of the Commission of 15 October 1991 (OJ No L 294, p51, 25.10.91) amending Decisions 91/146/EEC concerning protective measures against cholera in Peru (OJ No L 73, p34, 20.3.91), 91/281/EEC concerning importations of fishery and aquaculture products from Ecuador (OJ No L 142, p43, 6.6.91) and 91/282/EEC concerning importations of fishery and aquaculture products from Colombia (OJ No L 142, p44, 6.6.91). They also make amendments to those regulations consequential upon both the Decision and the Council Regulation, and make it an offence to import into Great Britain, or export from Great Britain to another member State of the European Economic Community, fruit, vegetables and fruit and vegetable products to which the Council Regulation applies, except in compliance with its requirements as to certification and inspection. Certain presumptions, contained in the Food Safety Act 1990, which are applied by the principal Regulations to certificates given by proper authorities in the affected countries in relation to food, are extended so as to apply also to certificates about feedingstuffs (Regulation 2).

Offences created by this instrument

For regulation 6 there shall be substituted the following— Offences 6 1 Any person who contravenes regulation 2(1) or… regulation 2(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Any person who contravenes regulation 2(1) or (2), 3(1) or 5(1) shall be guilty of an offence, triable only summarily,… regulation 6(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Any person who imports into Great Britain, or consigns for export from Great Britain to a member State, any fruit or… regulation 6(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability

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