{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Appeals against hygiene improvement notices and remedial action notices",
  "text": "(1) On an appeal against a hygiene improvement notice or a remedial action notice, the sheriff or the Court may cancel or affirm the notice and, if the notice is affirmed, may do so either in its original form or with such modifications as the sheriff or the Court may in the circumstances think fit.\n(2) Where any period specified in a hygiene improvement notice pursuant to regulation 6(1)(d) would otherwise include any day on which an appeal against that notice is pending, that day shall be excluded from that period.\n(3) Any appeal shall be regarded as pending for the purposes of paragraph (2) until it is finally disposed of or is withdrawn.\n(4) Where on appeal against a remedial action notice under paragraph (1) a sheriff or the Court cancels the notice, the enforcement authority shall compensate the food business operator who brought the appeal in respect of any loss suffered by reason of the food business operator’s compliance with the notice, and any dispute as to the right to or the amount of any compensation payable under this paragraph is to be determined by a single arbiter appointed, failing agreement between the parties, by the sheriff or the Court.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 22(4) inserted (1.4.2012) by The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/75), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/3/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:05.380826+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."
}