Bread and Flour (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1972
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1972/1489 |
| Year | 1972 |
1972 No. 1489 (S. 115)
FOOD AND DRUGS
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Bread and Flour (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 19722ndOctober 1972
10thOctober 1972
1stNovember 1972
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4, 7 and 56 of the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, and after consultation with such organisations as appear to me to be representative of interests substantially affected by these regulations and after reference to the Scottish Food Hygiene Council under section 25 of the said Act (in so far as the regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7), I hereby make the following regulations:—
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Bread and Flour (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1972, and shall come into operation on 1st November 1972.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Amendment of principal regulations
2. The Bread and Flour (Scotland) Regulations 1963(c), as amended (d), shall be further amended as follows:—
(a) in regulation 2(1) thereof—
(i) by inserting immediately after the definition of the Act the following definition:—
" 'azodicarbonamide' means the substance conforming to the description, specification and requirements for azodicarbonamide contained in the Food Chemicals Codex 1966 (publication 1406, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Washington DC, USA) at page 61;";
(ii) by substituting in the definition of chalk for the words "or the British Pharmaceutical Codex" the figures and words "1968 at page 178";
(iii) by inserting at the end of the definition of improving agent the words "L-cysteine hydrochloride and L-cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate";
(a) 1956 c. 30.
(b) 1889 c. 63.
(c) S.I. 1963/1461 (1963 II, p. 2589).
(d) There is no amendment which relates expressly to the subject matter of these regulations.
(iv) by inserting immediately after the definition of improving agent the following definitions:—
" 'L-cysteine hydrochloride' means the substance conforming to the description, specification and requirements relating thereto in Schedule 3 to these regulations;
'L-cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate' means the substance conforming to the description, specification and requirements relating thereto in Schedule 4 to these regulations;";
(b) by inserting immediately after paragraph (b) of the proviso to regulation 31(2) thereof the following paragraphs:—
"(ba) all flour other than wholemeal may contain azodicarbonamide in any proportion not exceeding 45 parts per million (calculated by weight);
(bb) all flour other than wholemeal may contain L-cysteine hydrochloride or L-cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate or both L-cysteine hydrochloride and L-cysteine hydrochloride mono-hydrate in any proportion not exceeding 75 parts per million (calculated by weight as L-cysteine...
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