Regulation 22 Transitional provision
(1)
An authorised officer of an enforcement authority must not serve an improvement notice under Article 9(1) of the Order, as applied and modified by regulation 19, as read with Schedule 2, if—
(a)
the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market or labelled before 24th June 2015; and
(b)
the matters constituting the alleged contravention would not have constituted an offence under the Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 as they stood immediately before 24th June 2015.
(2)
In this regulation “authorised officer” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2)(a) of the Order.