{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/3",
  "legislation_title": "Food Hygiene Rating Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Duty to provide information about rating",
  "text": "(1) The operator of a food business establishment or a relevant employee at the establishment must, on being requested to do so, orally inform the person making the request of the establishment's food hygiene rating.\n(2) A “relevant employee” of a food business establishment is a person who—\n(a) is employed at the establishment, and\n(b) is, in the opinion of the operator of the establishment, likely to be subject to a request of the kind referred to in subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in operation at 7.10.2016 by S.R. 2016/328, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/3/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:06.273684+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."
}