{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/egg-products-regulations-1993/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/egg-products-regulations-1993/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1520",
  "legislation_title": "The Egg Products Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/egg-products-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Approved establishments",
  "text": "(1) No person shall on or after 14th October 1993 manufacture any egg products or (except in the circumstances referred to in regulation 3(4)) apply heat treatment to any egg products for the purpose of sale for human consumption otherwise than in an establishment approved for the purposes of these Regulations by the food authority and which complies with the appropriate requirements of Schedules 1 and 8.\n(2) The food authority on application made to it under this regulation shall issue an approval if it is satisfied that the egg products establishment complies with the requirements of these Regulations.\n(3) Each application for an approval of an egg products establishment shall be made in writing under this regulation to the food authority by the owner or occupier of, or a person proposing to occupy the establishment to which the application relates.\n(4) The application for the purposes of paragraph (3) above shall contain such information as the food authority may require.\n(5) Each food authority shall after an inspection of the egg products establishment consider each application for the approval of any establishment for the purposes of these Regulations and shall approve it only if satisfied that its arrangements at the establishment are such that—\n(a) the storage at and transport from such establishment of egg products will comply with Schedules 5 and 6;\n(b) the requirements of Schedule 8 will not be contravened;\n(c) the packaging of egg products will comply with Schedule 9;\n(d) the marking of egg products from such establishment will comply with Schedule 10.\n(6) The food authority shall, not later than 28 days after receipt of the application referred to in paragraph (3) above, notify the applicant in writing of its decision on each application for an approval under this regulation and of the reasons for any refusal to approve such egg products establishment.\n(7) Any approval granted in respect of any egg products establishment under this regulation shall be subject to the condition that any alteration to the establishment shall comply, if appropriate, with the requirements of Schedules 1, 5 and 8.\n(8) Any person who is aggrieved by the decision of a food authority not to grant an approval or by the imposition of specified conditions, may appeal against that decision in accordance with the provisions of section 37(3) to (6) inclusive of the Act.\n(9) The food authority shall allot an approval number to each egg products establishment it approves for the purposes of these Regulations.\n(10) Without prejudice to sections 9 to 12 of the Act, where the food authority has refused an approval under this regulation, a person who prior to the commencement of these Regulations, immediately before such refusal had been using an establishment for the handling of egg products, may continue to use it for that purpose, subject to any reasonable conditions imposed by the food authority for the protection of public health, until the time for appeal has expired and, if an appeal is lodged, until the appeal is finally disposed of or abandoned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1520/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:55:12.128108+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}