Primary Produce (Food Safety Schemes) (Seafood) Regulations 2017

In these regulations—

accredited producer means a bivalve mollusc producer accredited under these regulations;

Act means the Primary Produce (Food Safety Schemes)

Act 2004;

approved area—see regulation 9(3);

aquaculture licence has the same meaning as in the Aquaculture

Act 2001;

bivalve mollusc producer means the holder of an aquaculture or fishery licence authorising the farming or taking of bivalve molluscs;

bivalve mollusc production activities means activities constituted of the production of primary produce involving bivalve molluscs intended for sale or supply for human consumption;

bivalve molluscs includes cockles, clams, mussels, oysters, pipis and scallops;

fishery licence has the same meaning as in the

Fisheries Management

Act 2007;

food safety arrangement—see regulation 8;

licensee means the holder of an aquaculture or fishery licence;

restricted area—see regulation 9(3);

spat means a mollusc that would pass through a screen with a mesh size of 10 millimetres by

10 millimetres;

Standard 4.2.1 means Standard 4.2.1 (Primary Production & Processing

Standard for Seafood) of the Food Standards

Code, within the meaning of the Food Act 2001, and includes other documents called up by that Standard;

wet storage means the storage of live bivalve molluscs in containers (not located in the sea) of natural or synthetic seawater.