Food Safety and Standards (Transaction of Business at its meetings) Amendment Regulations, 2016

Official text

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

(FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 16th August, 2016

F. No. F1-61/FSSAI/Tr. Business/Reg/2015.—Whereas the draft of certain regulations, further to amend the

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (Transaction of Business at its meetings) Regulations, 2010, was

published as required under sub- section (1) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), vide

notification of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India number F. No. 1-61/FSSAI/Tr. Business/Reg/2015

dated the 1st April, 2016 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, inviting objections or suggestions

from the persons likely to be affected thereby, before the expiry of period of thirty days from the date on which the

copies of the Official Gazette containing the said notification were made available to the public;

And whereas the copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on 12th April, 2016;

And whereas no objections and suggestions have been received from the public in respect of the said draft

regulations;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (f) of sub-section (2) of section 92 read with sub-

section (1) of section 17 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), the Food Safety and Standards

Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards Authority of

India (Transaction of Business at its meetings) Regulations, 2010, namely:-

REGULATIONS

1. Short title and commencement.– (1) These regulations may be called “The Food Safety and Standards

Authority of India (Transaction of Business at its Meetings) Amendment Regulations, 2016.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

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2. In the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (Transaction of Business at its meetings) Regulations,

2010,-

(a) in regulation 1, in sub-regulation (1), for the figure “2010” the figure “2011” shall be substituted; and

(b) for regulation 16, the following shall be substituted, namely: -

“16. Reimbursement of expenses.— The Members of the Food Authority, other than ex-officio members, shall

be paid a sitting fee of rupees four thousand for each day or part thereof for attending each meeting and the

reimbursement of actual travel and subsistence expenses.”.

[ADVT.-III/Exty./208(187)]

PAWAN AGARWAL, Chief Executive Officer

Note: The principle regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 vide

notification number F. 1-61/FSSA/2009-DFQC, dated 4.3.2011.

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