Food (Peanuts from China) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. No. 149 of 2002).

The Regulations prohibit the importation of Chinese peanuts (as defined in regulation 2) which left China on or after 11 March 2002, except where they are accompanied by Chinese Government health certificates and the results of official sampling and analysis, the importation takes place only through specified points of entry and the consignment is identified with a code corresponding with that specified on the health certificate and in the sampling and analysis results (regs. 2 and 3) and prohibit the importation of Chinese peanuts which left China before 11 March 2002 and which are not accompanied by the documentation otherwise required, except where the importation takes place only through a specified point of entry and the operator can show, by sampling and analysis of the consignment in the prescribed manner, that it does not contain aflatoxin B1 or total aflatoxin above the legally prescribed maximum levels. Further they specify the enforcement authorities (reg. 4) and apply, with modifications, provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (reg. 5).