The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2007

Made: 19th September 2007

Laid before Parliament: 27th September 2007

Coming into force

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PART 1 — Preliminary

Title, application and commencement

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Interpretation

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Scope

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PART 2 — General Requirements for Materials and Articles

Enforcement of Regulation 1935/2004

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Enforcement of Regulation 2023/2006

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Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 1935/2004

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Competent authority for the purposes of Regulation 2023/2006

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PART 3 — Requirements for Vinyl Chloride

Limits and migration limits

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Methods of Analysis

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PART 4 — Requirements for Regenerated Cellulose Film

Controls and limits

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Migration limits for regenerated cellulose film coated with plastics

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Saving and transitional provisions and defences

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PART 5 — General

Offences and penalties

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Enforcement

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Offences by corporate bodies or Scottish partnerships

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Offences due to the act or default of a third party

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Time limit for prosecutions

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General defences

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Procedure where a sample is to be analysed

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Secondary analysis by the Government Chemist

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Application of various provisions of the Act

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Amendment of the Ceramic Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2006

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Amendment of the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990

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Consequential amendments to the 2006 Regulations

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Revocations

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Dawn Primarolo — Minister of State, — 2007-09-19

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c.16. Section 1(1) and (2) (definition of “food”) was substituted by S.I. 2004/2990. Sections 17 and 48 were amended by paragraphs 12 and 21 respectively of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c.28), “the 1999Act”. Section 48 was also amended by S.I. 2004/2990. Section 26(3) was amended by Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act. Section 53(2) was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 16 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (1994 c.40), Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act and S.I. 2004/2990.

[^f00002]: Functions formerly exercisable by “the Ministers” (being, in relation to England and Wales and acting jointly, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales and, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State) are now exercisable in relation to England by the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act. Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the NationalAssembly for Wales by S.I.1999/672 as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act, and thereafter transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c.32). Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46) as read with section 40(2) of the 1999 Act.

[^f00003]: 1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (2006, c.51).

[^f00004]: OJ No.L31, 1.2.2002, p.1. That Regulation was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No.575/2006 (OJ No.L100, 8.4.2006, p.3).

[^f00005]: S.I. 2006/2687.

[^f00006]: OJ No. L220, 15.8.2002, p.18. This Directive was corrected by a corrigendum (OJ No. L39, 13.2.2003, p.1), and has been amended as at the date these Regulations were made by Commission Directives 2004/1/EC (OJ No. L7, 13.1.2004, p.45), 2004/19/EC (OJ No. L71, 10.3.2004, p.8), 2005/79/EC (OJ No. L302, 19.11.2005, p.35) and Commission Directive 2007/19/EC (OJ No.L97, 12.4.2007, p.50).

[^f00007]: OJ No. L172, 30.6.2007, p.71. This Directive repealed and consolidated without further amendment Commission Directive 93/10/EEC as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/14/EC.

[^f00008]: OJ No. L338, 13.11.2004, p.4.

[^f00009]: OJ No. L384, 29.12.2006, p.75.

[^f00010]: 1984 c.22.

[^f00011]: OJ No. L213, 16.8.80, p.42.

[^f00012]: OJ No. L167, 24.6.81, p.6.

[^f00013]: S.I. 1987/1523, as amended by S.I. 1990/2487 S.I. 1991/1476 and S.I. 1994/979.

[^f00014]: S.I. 2005/898. These Regulations were subsequently amended by S.I. 2005/2626, S.I. 2006/1401 and S.I. 2006/2687, but none of those amendments are relevant to this provision.

[^f00015]: S.I. 2006/1179.

[^f00016]: OJ No. L277, 20.10.1984, p.12.

[^f00017]: OJ No. L110, 30.4.2005, p.36.

[^f00018]: OJ No. L338, 13.11.2004, p.4.

[^f00019]: S.I. 1990/2463.

[^f00020]: S.I. 2007/2790

Editorial notes

[^key-fbcadddfef2089f3965a75d73718127a]: Regulations revoked (20.10.2010) by The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2225), regs. 1, 25 (with reg. 3)

Enforcement of Regulation 450/2009

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Enforcement of Regulation 2023/2006

Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 1935/2004

Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 450/2009

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Competent authority for the purposes of Regulation 2023/2006

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