The Aquaculture, Inland And Marine Products And By-Products (Inspection, Licensing And Export) Act

Regulations

(under section 37 (1))
THE AQUACULTURE, INLAND AND MARINE PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS
(INSPECTION, LICENSING AND EXPORT) REGULATIONS, 2000
(Made by the Minister on the 9th day of May, 2000)
PART I- Preliminary
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Aquaculture, Inland and Marine Products and By-Products (Inspection, Licensing and Export) Regulations, 2000.

2. In these Regulations- 

"amenities" includes toilets, showers, locker rooms, change rooms, canteens, kitchens, smoking rooms for staff and sleeping quarters on a vessel;
"approved analyst" means an analyst approved by the competent authority;
"batch" means a quantity of prescribed products of the same type consisting of one or more lots, or parts of lots, from the same licensed processing establishment or licensed vessel or harvested from a production area;
"can" means an immediate container made of metal, glass or other material suitable for use as a hermetically sealed container;
"canned" means preserved by thermal processing and enclosed in a hermetically sealed can;
"cadon" means an outer container, case or crate used for packaging an immediate container;
"chemical compound" means any chemical substance that is listed in a licensed processing establishment or on a licensed vessel for any purpose other than as a product ingredient;
"chilled", in relation to prescribed products, means cooled by a process so that the temperature of the product is held between -lo and +4" Celsius;
"clean" means to remove soil, product residues, dirt, grease or other objectionable matter that may cause contamination of prescribed
products;
"clean sea water" means sea water or brackish water which is free from microbiological contaminants or other toxic substances;
"coasial zone" means that part of the coast or an estuary or area of sea water which consists of homogenous hydrological systems;
"Codex" means the Codex Alimentarius published by the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the United Nations as amended from time to time;
"cold store" means a place at a licensed processing establishment or on a licensed vessel in which chilled or frozen prescribed products are stored;
"container", in relation to a prescribed product, means the principal covering in which the product is packed;
"critical control point" means a step, practice, procedure, process or location, that can be controlled in order to prevent, reduce or eliminate a hazard, or minimize the likelihood of its occurrence;
"declared net contents" means a declaration in a trade description of the net contents of an immediate container of prescribed products;
"defective", in relation to a sample unit of prescribed products, means that the sample unit fails to meet tolerance or sample plan conditions specified in Part XIY;
"depuration" means the removal of impurities from marine species;
"disinfect" means reduce, by means of hygienically satisfactory chemical agents or physical methods or both, the number of micro-organisms to a level that will not lead to contamination of prescribed products;
"distribution system" means the public water supply;
"domestic distribution system" means the pipe-work, fittings and appliances within the curtilage of a licensed processing establishment which are installed between the distribution network and the taps to facilitate the provision of water for
human consumption;
"essential services" include water, gas, electricity, sewerage drainage and water disposal;
"identification code" means a letter, number or combination of letters and numbers that, together with a trade description, uniquely identifies the prescribed products in a carton;
"immediate container", in relation to a prescribed product, means the container of the product that is not separated from the product by any intervening covering, except Lining material;
"ingredient", in relation to a prescribed product, means any substance

PART II - Inspectors
8. (1) Each inspector shall be furnished with an identification card in the form set out as Form 2 in the First Schedule. Fust Schedule
    (2) Every inspector shall affix his identification card number near his FO~ 2 signature on every document signed by him.

PART III - Laboratories
9. (1) There shall be provided in every laboratory operated and maintained by the competent authority-
(a) a competent administrative structure;
(b) a documented management system and procedure
10. (1) Every laboratory to which this Part applies shall comply with the pract~ccs principles of established good laboratory practices.
    (2) The competent authority shall, when submitting the result of a laboratory test to a foreign competent authority, certify that the tests were carried out in a laboratory operated and maintained by it or any collaborating laboratory and in accordance with the principles of good laboratory practices.
    (3) The competent authority shall institute a system for monitoring the implementation of the principles of good laboratory practices as aforesaid, 
11. (1) The competent authority may contract the services of any other competent laboratory (hereinafter in this regulation referred to as collaborating laboratory) to carry out, on the authority's behalf, such functions as it may specify.
    (2) Where the competent authority contracts the services of collaborating laboratory the authority shall-
(a) determine the competence of the collaborating laboratory to carry out a sampling, test or analysis before requiring it to do so;
(b) take such steps as are necessary to ensure that-
(i) any sampling is carried out in compliance with a sampling plan and the integrity of the sample is maintained throughout the period of its delivery and handling;
(ii) appropriate and analytical methods are used in carrying out any test or analysis;

PART IV - Licensing of Exporters, Establishments and Vessels

 
12. (a) is owned or controlled by a citizen of Jamaica;
    (b) has an appropriate system for the storage of prescribed products;
    (c) has crew members duly certified under the Public Health Act or any regulations made thereunder.
 
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