Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 1008

FOOD, ENGLAND

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003

Made

31st March 2003

Laid before Parliament

4th April 2003

Coming into force

2nd May 2003

^M1^,^M2^,^M3 The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16(1)(a), 17(1), 26(1) and (3) and 48(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990 and now vested in him and having had regard in accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency and after consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety and in accordance with section 48(4) and (4B) of the Food Safety Act 1990, makes the following Regulations:

Title, extent and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003, shall extend to England only and shall come into force on 2nd May 2003.

Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995

^M4^,^M5^,^M6 2. In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 , in the definition of “ Directive 96/77/EC ”, for the phrase “and Commission Directive 2001/30/EC ” there shall be substituted the phrase ^M7 “ , Commission Directive 2001/30/EC and Commission Directive 2002/82/EC ” .

Consequential amendments

^M8 3. —(1) Paragraph (2) of regulation 9 (consequential amendments) of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2001 shall be omitted.

^F1 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hazel Blears

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

in force	Provision is in force
in force*	In force only for specified purposes (for detail about the purposes see/hover footnote)
not in force	Not in force in England (may be in force in other geographies, see footnotes)
italics	Defined term
_dfn	Defined term (alternative style)
gry bckgrd	the in-force status of the provision is complex, check the footnotes

in force

Provision is in force

in force*

In force only for specified purposes (for detail about the purposes see/hover footnote)

not in force

Not in force in England (may be in force in other geographies, see footnotes)

italics

Defined term

_dfn

Defined term (alternative style)

gry bckgrd

the in-force status of the provision is complex, check the footnotes

footnote	commentary	insert/omit
F1	Reg. 3(2) omitted (16.1.2004) by virtue of The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3295) , regs. 1 , 3(1)	omitted
M1	1990 c. 16 .
M2	Functions formerly exercisable by “the Ministers” (being in relation to England and Wales and acting jointly, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales and, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State) are now exercisable in relation to England by the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c. 28) , and paragraphs 12(a) and 21 of that Schedule amend respectively sections 17(1) and 48 of the 1990 Act. Functions of “the Ministers” so far as exercisable in relation to Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) , as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act, and those functions so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46) , as read with section 40(2) of the 1999 Act. Regulation 13(4) of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/656) expressly authorises the Secretary of State to amend or revoke existing Regulations made or having effect as if made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (whether with others or not) under the Food Safety Act 1990.
M3	OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1.
M4	S.I. 1995/3187 , amended by S.I. 1997/1413 , S.I . 1999/1136, S.I. 2000/3323 , S.I . 2001/60, S.I. 2001/2294 , S.I . 2001/3442, S.I. 2001/3775 and S.I. 2002/379 .
M5	OJ No. L339, 30.12.1996, p.1.
M6	OJ No. L146, 31.5.2001, p.1.
M7	OJ No. L292, 28.10.2002, p.1.
M8	S.I. 2001/3775 .

2003 No. 1008

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003

Title, extent and commencement

Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995

Consequential amendments

Status of changes to instrument text