Sausage and Other Meat Product (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1968

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1968/139
Year1968

1968 No. 139 (S. 8)

FOOD AND DRUGS

COMPOSITION AND LABELLING—SCOTLAND

The Sausage and Other Meat Product (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1968

29thJanuary 1968

9thFebruary 1968

31stMay 1969

In exercise of the powers conferred upon 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 relate to the labelling, marking or description of food), I hereby make the following regulations:—

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Sausage and Other Meat Product (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1968, and shall come into operation on 31st May 1969.

(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.

2. The Sausage and Other Meat Product (Scotland) Regulations 1967(c) shall be amended by substituting for the definition of "meat with cereal" in regulation 2(1) thereof the following definition:—

" 'meat with cereal' means any meat product which has a vegetable content of less than 25 per cent. and of which the principal ingredient by weight, other than meat, is cereal, and includes luncheon meat, but does not include any faggot, rissole, croquette or meat ball described as such ;".

William Ross, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

St. Andrew's House, Edinburgh, 1.

29th January 1968.

(a) 1956 c. 30.

(b) 1889 c. 63.

(c) S.I. 1967/1078 (1967 II, p. 3186)

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