Explanatory note

Section 19 of the Food Safety Act 1990 ( “the 1990 Act ”) authorises the creation of a system of registration of premises used or proposed to be used for the purposes of a food business. The Food Premises (Registration) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2825) have been made to provide such a system. In consequence of the coming into force of section 19 of the 1990 Act, a number of provisions in local Acts of Parliament which deal with the same subject are no longer necessary. This Order modifies those Acts by omitting the unnecessary provisions with consequential repeals (articles 1 to 13, 16 to 18 and 19(1) and the Schedule).

The Order revokes that part of the Local Law (North East London Boroughs) Order 1965 which applied the registration provisions of the Essex County Council Act 1952, with modifications, to the London Boroughs of Barking, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest (article 19(2)).

Section 22 of the Food Act 1984 required three days' notice to be given for an application for an emergency order requiring the closure of premises. It was repealed on 1st January 1991 with the coming into force of the main provisions of the 1990 Act. In consequence, certain provisions of the Greater Manchester Act 1981, the Hampshire Act 1983 and the Leicestershire Act 1985, which abridged the period mentioned in section 22(2) of the 1984 Act in the areas to which they applied, have become unnecessary and are repealed (articles 7, 14 and 15).