Explanatory note

exempt specified food business establishments from rating under the Act (Regulation 3);

prescribe the form of a Food Hygiene Rating Sticker to be issued under section 2(2) of the Act and responsibility for the cost of producing the sticker (regulation 4 and Schedule 1);

specify the location and manner of display of a Food Hygiene Rating Sticker by the operator of a food business establishment required to display by section 7(1) of the Act;

specify the information that district councils must send to operators of new food business establishments under section 12(2) of the Act explaining the requirements of the Act and regulations made under it, as well as the operators rights under the Act, for example to appeal or request re-rating (regulation 6); and

specify the form and method of payment of a fixed penalty notice issued under section 11(1) of the Act (regulation 7).