Article 59 Enforcement

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), this Order shall be enforced by the local authority.

This Order shall be enforced in relation to slaughterhouses by the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or any particular case, that an enforcement duty imposed on a local authority under this Order shall be discharged by the Secretary of State and not by the local authority.

For the purposes of paragraph (2) or where the Secretary of State makes a direction under paragraph (3), the Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under section 73 of the Act relating to this Order.