The Eggs (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1414
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Eggs (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 30th June 1997.

Section 2 Amendment of the Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995

The Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995 shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4 below.

Section 3 Amendment of the Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995

There shall be substituted for regulation 10 (application of various sections of the Act) the following regulation—

Application of various provisions of the Act

(10)

(1) The following provisions of the Act shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in them to the Act shall be construed as a reference to these Regulations—

section 2 (extended meaning of “sale” etc. );

section 3 (presumption that food is intended for human consumption);

section 20 (offences due to fault of another person);

section 21 (defence of due diligence) as it applies for the purposes of section 8, 14 or 15;

section 30(8) (which relates to documentary evidence);

section 35(1) to (3) (punishment of offences) in so far as it relates to offences under section 33(1) and (2));

section 36 (offences by bodies corporate);

section 50 (service of documents).

(2) The following provisions of the Act shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations, and any reference in those sections to the Act shall be construed for the purposes of these Regulations as including a reference to the Community provisions—

section 32 (powers of entry);

section 33 (obstruction etc. of officers);

section 44 (protection of officers acting in good faith).

Section 4 Amendment of the Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995

In the Schedule (Community provisions), there shall be inserted at the end of paragraph 2, in column 1 (Regulations of the European Communities) and column 2 (Official Journal of the European Community: References) the following entries—

(h) Commission Regulation ( EC ) No. 1511/96