The Animal Feed (Basic Safety Standards) (England) Regulations 2019
UK Statutory Instrument 2019 No. 683 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 25 March 2019
- In force from
- 17 April 2019
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
- Made under
- (EC) No. 178/2002, Agriculture Act 1970, European Communities Act 1972, Food Standards Act 1999, Regulations cannot be made under the powers in the Agriculture Act 1970
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 transposition in England of the requirements of Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 5th December 2013 laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation, and repealing Directives 89/618/Euratom, 90/641/Euratom, 96/29/Euratom, 97/43/Euratom and 2003/122/Euratom (OJ L 13, 17.1.2014, p. 1). In particular, the Regulations provide that a person commits an offence if they intentionally add any radioactive substance to animal feed during production of the feed. The Regulations also provide that a person commits an offence if they import to, or export from, the United Kingdom and animal feed to which, during production, a radioactive substance has been intentionally added. A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Animal Feed, Foodborne Disease Control, Allergy and Intolerance Branch of the Food Standards Agency, Clive House, 70 Petty France, London SW1H 9EX and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website.
Offences created by this instrument
- Any person who contravenes regulation 3 or regulation 4 is guilty of an offence and liable to the penalties referred… regulation 5 · Status not determined · Mixed — some elements strict, some not
What Parliament said about it
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How Parliament handled it
This instrument became law without a debate or a vote. Under the negative procedure it took effect unless a motion to stop it succeeded, and none was tabled.
- Procedure
- Made negative — law unless a motion to stop it succeeded
- Could either House amend it?
- No. A statutory instrument is put to each House as a whole thing, to be approved or not. Neither House can change a word of it.
Procedural history
- Instrument created 25 March 2019
- Instrument made (signed into law) 25 March 2019
- Laid before the House of Commons 26 March 2019 · Commons
- Laid before the House of Lords 26 March 2019 · Lords
- Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 8 April 2019 · Lords
- No comment by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 8 April 2019 · Lords
- Instrument comes into force as law 17 April 2019
- Considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 24 April 2019 · Commons, Lords
- Not drawn to the special attention of the Houses by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 24 April 2019 · Commons, Lords
- Objection period ends 15 May 2019
- Instrument remains law 15 May 2019
- Procedure concluded in the House of Commons and the House of Lords 15 May 2019 · Commons, Lords
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