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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Potatoes Originating in Egypt (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 26th April 2000.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to those Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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(1) The Potatoes Originating in Egypt Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) for the definition of “the Decision” there shall be substituted—“
 “the Decision” means Commission Decision 96/301/EC authorising member States temporarily to take additional measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt as amended by Commission Decision 98/105/EC authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt, Commission Decision 98/503/EC authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt, and Commission Decision 99/842/EC authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum as regards Egypt;”.
(3) In regulation 5A—
(a) for the heading “Fees in respect of the sampling of seed potatoes landed in Northern Ireland” there shall be substituted “Fees in respect of the sampling of potatoes landed in Northern Ireland”;
(b) in paragraph (1), the word “seed” after “consignment of” shall be omitted.
(4) In regulation 3(2) (landing of potatoes originating in Egypt) and regulation 5A(1) (Fees in respect of the sampling of potatoes landed in Northern Ireland), for the words “Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith”, there shall be substituted “Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 21st March 2000.
R. S. Johnston
Senior Officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
