Genetically Modified Organisms (Risk Assessment) (Records and Exemptions) Regulations 1996
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1996 No. 1106
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
The Genetically Modified Organisms (Risk Assessment) (Records and Exemptions) Regulations 1996
Made 12th April 1996
Laid before Parliament 18th April 1996
Coming into force 9th May 1996
The Secretary of State for the Environment and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting jointly as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 108(5), (7) and (10) and 126(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 19901and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—
Citation, commencement, revocation and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Genetically Modified Organisms (Risk Assessment)(Records and Exemptions) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 9th May 1996.
(2) The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 19932are hereby revoked.
(3) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and
“the Contained Use Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 19923.
Duty to keep records of risk assessments
2. The period for which a person who carries out an assessment under section 108(1)(a) of the Act (Risk assessment and notification requirements) shall keep a record of that assessment shall be ten years.
Exemptions from requirement to carry out risk assessments
3.—(1) A person who imports or acquires genetically modified organisms shall be exempt from the requirements of section 108(1)(a) of the Act in so far as they relate to the protection of human health.
(2) A person who imports or acquires genetically modified organisms shall be exempt from the requirements of section 108(1)(a) of the Act where the organisms to be imported or acquired—
(a)
(a) are, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Contained Use Regulations, genetically modified micro-organisms;
(b)
(b) are organisms, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Contained Use Regulations, other than micro-organisms within the meaning of regulation 2(1) as aforesaid, which are modified by means of—
(i) the application of the techniques which, by virtue of Part II of Schedule 1 to the Contained Use Regulations, are not considered to result in genetic modification for the purposes of...
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