These Regulations may be cited as the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001, shall come into force on 30th March 2001 and shall extend to England.
The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 note shall be amended, in so far as they extend to England, in accordance with regulations 3 to 5 below.
In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “Directive 96/77/EC” there shall be added at the end the words “ and Commission Directive 2000/63/EC ”note.
In regulation 11 (transitional provision and exemptions) there shall be inserted after paragraph (1B) the following paragraph—“1C In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations in respect of any food additive or food, it shall be a defence to prove that—a the food additive or food concerned was put on the market or labelled before 31st March 2001; andb the matter constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made by regulations 3 and 5 of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001 had not been made when that matter occurred.”
(1)In so far as any Instrument listed in regulation 14(1) of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations 1999 note extends to England, that provision shall cease to have effect in relation to that instrument.