Statutory Instrument

S.I. No. 735 of 2003 .

Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2003.

Dublin

Published by the Stationery Office

S.I. No. 735 of 2003

Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order, 2003.

I, Tim O'Malley, Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 5 of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 ( No. 29 of 1998 ), after consultation with the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment hereby order as follows:

1.   This Order may be cited as the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2003.

2.   The Second Schedule to No. 29 of 1998 ), is amended by the inclusion of “the National Standards Authority of Ireland”.

Explanatory Note

(This is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to amend the Second Schedule to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 by including the National Standards Authority of Ireland as an official agency.

For ease of reading, a list of all Official Agencies is included below:

the Director of Consumer Affairs,

a health board,

a local authority,

the Marine Institute

the Minister for Agriculture and Food,

the Minister for Health and Children,

the Minister for the Environment and Local Government,

the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources,

the National Standards Authority of Ireland

the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland,

the State Laboratory.