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These Regulations may be cited as the Food Information (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and come into operation on 1st April 2020.
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(1) The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 1(5) insert—“
(5A) For the purposes of the following provisions, these Regulations come into operation on 1st April 2020—
(a) Part 5 of Schedule 5; and
(b) regulation 12 and Schedule 4 so far as (by applying, with some modifications, specified provisions of the Order) they enable an improvement notice to be served on a person requiring that person to comply with the provision of FIC specified in Part 5 of Schedule 5 and an appeal against such a notice to be made and dealt with, and make the failure to comply with such an improvement notice an offence.”.
(3) In Schedule 5 (Improvement notices – specified provisions), after Part 4, insert—“
Part 5

Provision of FIC Provisions to be read with the provision of FIC
Article 26(3) (requirement for a mandatory indication relating to the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient in certain cases) Articles 1(3) and 6 of FIC and Articles (2) (3) and (4) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/775 as regards the rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food.”
Sealed with the official seal of the Department of Health on 4th March 2020.
N K Chada
A senior officer of the Department of Health
