Feeding Stuffs (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001 (S.R. No. 47 of 2001).

For the purposes of sections 68(1) and 69(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 feeding stuffs, feed materials, additives and premixtures of additives for farmed animals and pet animals. are prescribed in regulation 3. Sellers of these are required to give to purchasers statutory statements covering their composition, and containing information or instructions as to their storage, handling and use, and to mark them with that information. 4. The contents of statutory statements and other declarations are prescribed by regulation 4 and Schedules 4 and 5 and their form by regulation 5. Permitted limits of variation in mis-statements in statutory statements are prescribed (regs. 7 and Schedule 6). The Regulations also regulate packing and labelling of feeding stuffs, regulate the putting into circulation of feed materials and additives and provide for the enforcement of provisions the legal basis of which is the European Communities Act 1972 (regulation 22). Provisions relating to offences and penalties in relation to contraventions of these Regulations are found in Part IV of the Agriculture Act 1970.