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Regulation 23 Enforcement

United Kingdom

(1)

These Regulations must be enforced by the local authority.

(2)

The Secretary of State may direct, in relation to a particular case or to cases of a particular description, that he will enforce these Regulations instead.

F1(3)

Where the Secretary of State makes a direction under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under section 73 of the Act relating to these Regulations.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 23(3) added (24.12.2012) by The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2897), arts. 1(1), 12