Article 58 Enforcement

(1)

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

(2)

This Order shall be enforced in relation to slaughterhouses by the Scottish Ministers.

(3)

The Scottish Ministers 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 Scottish Ministers and not by the local authority.

Notes on the whole SSI

Textual amendments

F1: 1981 c. 22, amended by the Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3293). The functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) are now exercisable by the Scottish Ministers. They were transferred, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.