{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2013/2",
  "legislation_title": "Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“authorised officer” (“swyddog awdurdodedig”) means an officer authorised in writing by a food authority for the purpose of exercising any of the authority's functions under this Act;\n“food authority” (“awdurdod bwyd”) has the meaning in section 2;\n“food business establishment” (“sefydliad busnes bwyd”) has the meaning in section 2;\n“food hygiene rating” (“sgôr hylendid bwyd”) has the meaning in section 3;\n“operator” (“gweithredwr”) (of a food business establishment) has the meaning in section 2;\n“prescribed” (“a ragnodir”) means prescribed in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers;\n“send” (“anfon”) means send by post or deliver by hand;\n“rating criteria” (“meini prawf sgorio”) has the meaning in section 3;\n“re-rating” (“ailsgoriad”) has the meaning in section 12.\n(2) References in this Act to a food hygiene rating sticker include, where the context requires, a reference to more than one sticker.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 28.11.2013 by S.I. 2013/2617, art. 3(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/2/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:32.425552+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."
}