Regulation 41 EnforcementI1

F1These Subject to paragraphs (1A) and (2), these Regulations are enforced by the relevant local authority.

These Regulations as they apply to slaughterhouses in England are enforced by the Food Standards Agency.

The appropriate authority may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or in relation to particular cases, that the appropriate authority will enforce these Regulations instead.

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 these Regulations in England.

A constable may stop and search any vehicle that the constable reasonably believes to be carrying pigs and may check documents carried in the vehicle to ensure that pigs are not transported in contravention of these Regulations.

Any vehicle suspected by the constable of carrying pigs in contravention of these Regulations may—