Regulation 4 Qualifications of food examiners
(1)
A person shall be qualified to be a food examiner if–
(a)
he possesses a qualification listed in Part I of Schedule 2, and
(b)
subject to paragraph (2) below, he has carried out examination of food over a period or periods amounting in the aggregate to at least three years in one or more of the laboratories set out in Part II of that Schedule.
(2)
In calculating the qualification period in subparagraph (1)(b) above, no account shall be taken–
(a)
of any period spent as an undergraduate in a laboratory specified in paragraphs 10 to 13 of Part II of Schedule 2, or
(b)
of any period before 1 January 1985 in a laboratory specified in paragraph 14 of Part II of Schedule 2.