Explanatory note

(This Note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations come into force on 22nd February 1987 and prescribe the qualifications to be held by an officer of a council authorised under the Food Act 1984 to act in relation to the examination and seizure of meat. They revoke and re-enact the Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) Regulations 1978 and prescribe two additional alternative qualifications, that of a Diploma in Environmental Health of the Institution of Environmental Health Officers and a Diploma in the Inspection of Meat and other Foods of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland.