This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in SI 2005/50 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 1098

HEALTH AND SAFETY

The Blood Safety and Quality (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

4th April 2005

Laid before Parliament

7th April 2005

Coming into force

8th April 2005

The Secretary of State for Health, being a Minister designated( 1 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ) in relation to health protection measures regulating the use of material of human origin, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Blood Safety and Quality (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 8 ^th April 2005.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 ( 3 ).

Amendment to regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

2. In regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (authorisation of a blood establishment), in paragraph (4)—

(a) for “paragraph (4)” substitute “paragraph (3)”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (a)(iii), for “or which” substitute “of which”.

Amendment to regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

3. In regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (suspension or revocation of authorisation), in paragraph (4), in sub-paragraph (b), for “regulation 4(4)” substitute “regulation 4(3)”.

Amendment to regulation 12 of the principal Regulations

4. In regulation 12 of the principal Regulations (objections to suspensions, revocations etc. )—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “or be or” substitute “or to”;

(b) in paragraph (9), insert, at the beginning of the paragraph, “Subject to paragraph (11),”; and

Amendment to regulation 16 of the principal Regulations

5. In regulation 16 of the principal Regulations (records to be kept by the Secretary of State), in paragraph (1), in sub-paragraph (e), for “8th February1005” substitute “8th February 2005”.

Amendment to regulation 17 of the principal Regulations

6. In regulation 17 of the principal Regulations (powers of entry, etc.), in paragraph (1), in sub-paragraph (e), omit “subject to paragraph (6),”.

Amendment to regulation 18 of the principal Regulations

7. In regulation 18 of the principal Regulations (criminal offences), in paragraph (7), for “paragraph (5)” substitute “paragraph (8)”.

Amendment of regulation 19 of the principal Regulations

8. In regulation 19 of the principal Regulations (penalties), for “6 months”, in each place those words appear, substitute “3 months”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Melanie Johnson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

4th April 2005

( 1 )

S.I. 2004/3037 .

( 2 )

1972 c. 68 . Under section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) , despite the transfer to Scottish Ministers of functions in relation to implementing obligations under Community law in relation to devolved matters, the functions of the Secretary of State in relation to implementing these obligations continues to be exercisable by him as regards Scotland.

( 3 )

S.I. 2005/50 .

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