The Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1335
• Sections: 15

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 16th June 1997.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations—

“ the Act ” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“food authority” has the same meaning as set out in section 5(1), (1A), (2) and (3) of the Act save that it does not include—

the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county in England except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change; or

the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple);

“novel food” and “novel food ingredients” have the meaning set out in Article 1(2) of Regulation ( EC ) No. 258/97

“Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 ” means Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients; and

“specified Community provision” means a provision of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 specified in column 1, and described in column 2, of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations have, insofar as the context admits, the same meanings as in Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 and in these Regulations any reference to a numbered article is a reference to the article so numbered in Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 .

Section 3 Requests relating to Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients

Any request made pursuant to Article 4.1. shall be submitted for processing to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who shall act jointly with the Secretary of State for Health as the food assessment body in Great Britain for the purposes of that Regulation.

Section 4 Enforcement

Each food authority shall, within its area, enforce and execute the provisions of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 and these Regulations.

Section 5 Offences and penalties

(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the specified Community provisions shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(2) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Section 6 Application of various provisions of the Act

The following provisions of the Act shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as they apply for the purposes of sections 8, 14 or 15 of the Act and unless the context otherwise requires any reference in them to the Act shall be construed as a reference to these Regulations—

(a) section 2

(b) section 3

(c) section 20

(d) section 21

(e) section 30(8)

(f) section 35(1) to (3)

(g) section 36

(h) section 44

Section 7 Powers of Entry

Sections 32 and 33 of the Act (powers of entry; obstruction etc. of officers) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations, as they apply for the purposes of the Act and any reference in subsection (1) of that section to the Act shall be construed for the purposes of these Regulations as including a reference to the specified Community provision.

Section 1

Article 3.1

Section 2

Article 3.2

Section 3

Article 4.1

Section 4

Article 5

Section 5

Article 6.1

Section 6

Article 6.4

Section 7

Article 8.1

Section 8

Article 9.1