{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-regulations-2013/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-regulations-2013/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2013/2903",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-rating-wales-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The title of these Regulations is the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Regulations 2013.\n(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force at 00:01 hours on 28 November 2013.\n(3) Regulation 8 comes into force on 28 November 2014.\n(4) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.\n(5) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013;\n“establishment” (“sefydliad”) means a food business establishment;\n“the highest rating” (“y sg�r uchaf”) means a rating of “5 - Very Good”;\n“including” (“gan gynnwys”) and “includes” (“yn cynnwys”) are to be construed without limitation;\n“inspection report” (“adroddiad arolygu”)means a written report giving details of matters found by an authorised officer when carrying out a food hygiene rating inspection of an establishment in order to assess its food hygiene standards in accordance with section 3(1) of the Act;\n“rating” (“sg�r”) means a food hygiene rating given under the Act but not a non-statutory rating as defined in regulation 2(4);\n“rating breakdown” (“dadansoddiad sg�r”) in relation to a food business establishment means a breakdown of the rating given to that establishment into its component scores for each of the rating criteria; and\n“sticker” (“sticer”) means a food hygiene rating sticker.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/2903/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:40:53.707010+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."
}