Regulation 37 Enforcement authorities

(1)

The following bodies are designated as enforcement authorities^f1—

(a)

the Food Standards Agency;

(b)

food authorities;

(c)

feed authorities.

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

“food authorities“ has the same meaning as set out in section 5(1) and (3) of the Food Safety Act 1990^f2 except that it does not include the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of that Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and Middle Temple);

(b)

“feed authorities” means an authority identified in section 67(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970^f3 as having the duty to enforce Part 4 of that Act within its area or district as the case may be.

(3)

Enforcement authorities may appoint inspectors to carry out functions under these Regulations.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: “Enforcement authorities” are defined in section 28(1) of the Act.
f2: Section 5 was amended by paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 9 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), paragraph 163(2) of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), paragraphs 7, 8, and 9 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28) and Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 5).
f3: 1970 c. 40. Section 67(1) was amended by Schedule 30 to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), paragraph 15(3) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), paragraph 38(5) of Schedule 16 and Schedule 18 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) and S.S.I. 2020/467.