{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feed-hygiene-and-enforcement-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feed-hygiene-and-enforcement-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/608",
  "legislation_title": "The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feed-hygiene-and-enforcement-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) The relevant provisions are to be executed and enforced by Food Standards Scotland.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The Food Standards Scotland may in writing appoint as authorised officers, either generally or specifically, such persons as it considers necessary to act in matters arising under the relevant provisions.\n(4) A person appointed under paragraph (3) need not be an officer of the appointing body.\n(5) In this regulation, “the relevant provisions” are—\n(a)these Regulations;\n(b)the provisions of Regulation 178/2002 set out in regulation 15(2); and\n(c)Regulation 183/2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 substituted (20.9.2009) by The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/263), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 16(1) substituted (1.4.2021) by The Feed (Transfer of Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/467), regs. 1(2), 5(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 16(2) omitted (1.4.2021) by virtue of The Feed (Transfer of Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/467), regs. 1(2), 5(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(3) substituted (1.4.2021) by The Feed (Transfer of Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/467), regs. 1(2), 5(10)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/608/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:42.031496+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."
}