Regulation 8 Enforcement

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, each food authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations in its area and be the competent authority in its area for the purposes of the second paragraph of Article 2(2)(b) of Regulation 1139/98.

(2)

Each port health authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations in its district in relation to imported food and be the competent authority in its district in relation to such food for the purposes of the second paragraph of Article 2(2)(b) of Regulation 1139/98.

(3)

In this regulation “food authority” does not include–

(a)

the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change;

(b)

the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple).