Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. No. 214 of 2010)

S T A T U T O R Y R U L E S O F N O R T H E R N I R E L A N D 2010 No. 214 AGRICULTURE FOOD The Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 Made - - - - 14th June 2010 Coming into operation - 16th June 2010 The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(a) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(b). The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has been designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals(c). Citation, commencement and interpretation 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and come into operation on 16th June 2010. (2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(d) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly. Revocation 2. The Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(e) are revoked. Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 14th June 2010. (a) Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) Article 3(6) (b) 1972 c.68 (c) S.I. 2003/2901 (d) 1954 c.33 (e) S.R. 2008 No. 99 2 Sean Donaghy A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety 3 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations revoke the Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008 No. 99). Those Regulations implemented Commission Decision 2006/601/EC on emergency measures regarding the non-authorised genetically modified organism “LL RICE 601” in rice products (OJ No. L244, 7.9.2006, p.27) as last amended by Commission Decision 2008/162/EC amending Decision 2006/601/EC on emergency measures regarding the non-authorised genetically modified organism “LL RICE 601” in rice products (OJ No. L52, 27.2.2008, p.25). Commission Decision 2006/601/EC has been repealed by Commission Decision 2010/315/EU repealing Decision 2006/601/EC on emergency measures regarding the non-authorised genetically modified organism ‘LL RICE 601’ in rice products, and providing for random testing for the absence of that organism in rice products (OJ No. L141, 9.6.2010, p.10). © Crown Copyright 2010 Printed in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office being the Government Printer for Northern Ireland and the Officer appointed to print the Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly. £4.00 Dd. N4439. C2. 6/10. Gp. 130. 14567. S T A T U T O R Y R U L E S O F N O R T H E R N I R E L A N D 2010 No. 214 AGRICULTURE FOOD The Rice Products from the United States of America (Restriction on First Placing on the Market) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010