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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-and-hygiene-england-regulations-2013/regulation-22",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2996",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-and-hygiene-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Right of appeal",
  "text": "(1) Any person who is aggrieved by —\n(a) a decision of an authorised officer of an enforcement authority to serve a hygiene improvement notice;\n(b) a decision of an enforcement authority to refuse to issue a certificate under paragraph (6) of regulation 7 or paragraph (8) of regulation 8; or\n(c) a decision of an authorised officer of an enforcement authority to serve a remedial action notice,\nmay appeal to a magistrates' court.\n(2) The procedure on an appeal to a magistrates' court under paragraph (1) shall be by way of complaint for an order, and the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 applies to the proceedings.\n(3) The period within which an appeal under paragraph (1) may be brought is —\n(a) one month from the date on which notice of the decision was served on the person desiring to appeal; or\n(b) in the case of an appeal against a decision to issue a hygiene improvement notice, the period specified in sub-paragraph (a) or, if it is shorter, the period specified in the notice pursuant to sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) of regulation 6,\nand the making of a complaint for an order shall be deemed for the purposes of this paragraph to be the bringing of the appeal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2996/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:33:50.237386+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."
}