UK Offence Report

The Poultrymeat (Wales) Regulations 2011

Welsh Statutory Instrument 2011 No. 1719 — creates 3 criminal offences.

3offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
12 July 2011
In force from
15 August 2011
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
(EC) No 1234/2007, (EC) No 543/2008, (EC) No. 178/2002, Agency as required by section 48(4A) of the Food Safety Act 1990, European Communities Act 1972, Food Safety Act 1990, Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972

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 which apply in relation to Wales make provision for the enforcement and execution of directly applicable EU (European Union) marketing standards relating to poultrymeat. These Regulations: a revoke, in relation to Wales, the Poultry Meat (Water Content) Regulations 1984 (S.I. 1984/1145), b make the failure to comply with the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 543/2008 (OJ No L 157, 17.6.2008, p. 46) mentioned in Schedule 2 (provisions relating to the marketing of poultrymeat) an offence (regulation 3 and Schedule 2), c make provision in relation to the registration of slaughterhouses and producers as required by Article 12 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 543/2008 (regulation 5) and provide for appeals against a decision to refuse such a registration and a decision to cancel such a registration (regulations 6 and 7), d provide for the payment of fees in relation to water content checks carried out by the Food Standards Agency (regulation 8 and Schedule 3), e provide for enforcement (regulations 9 and 10), f confer powers of entry (regulation 11) and other powers (regulation 12), including seizure and destruction powers, g make the failure to comply with the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (OJ No L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 543/2008 mentioned in Schedule 1 a matter for which a compliance notice may be issued (regulation 14) and provide for appeals against compliance notices (regulations 15 and 16). Failure to comply with a compliance notice is an offence, and h make obstruction of an authorised officer an offence (regulation 18). Offences under the Regulations are punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (regulation 19). A regulatory impact assessment of the effect that these Regulations will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available at www.wales.gov.uk or from the Department for Rural Affairs, Welsh Assembly Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.

Offences created by this instrument

What Parliament said about it

Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

Check the source