# The Food Safety (Enforcement Authority) (England and Wales) Order 1990, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order assigns responsibility for the enforcement of certain provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 as respects non-metropolitan districts of England and Wales and the Temples. The provisions of that Act are enforced in England and Wales jointly by food authorities (as defined in section 5(1) of the Act) except where an Order provides that they shall be enforced solely by one authority.
The Order provides that, as respects non-metropolitan counties, the functions of an enforcement authority under section 12 (emergency prohibition notices and orders) shall be exercised solely by the district council, and that section 15 (falsely describing or presenting food) shall be enforced solely by the county council.
It also provides that, as respects the Temples, functions of an enforcement authority under section 12 shall be exercised solely by the appropriate Treasurer, and that section 15 shall be enforced solely by the Common Council of the City of London.
The Order does not affect any assignment of functions to a port health authority under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 or to a joint board for a united district under section 6 of the Public Health Act 1936.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2462/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-enforcement-authority-england-and-wales-order-1990/note
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