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Regulation 19A Compliance noticesF1

(1)

If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that any person has not complied with, is not complying with, or is not likely to comply with a provision specified in regulation 19B (which provisions concern declarations of compliance with legislative requirements or supporting documentation), the officer may serve a compliance notice on that person.

(2)

A compliance notice must state—

(a)

the reason for the service of the notice and the steps the person on whom the notice has been served must take;

(b)

the date and, if appropriate, the time by which each step must be taken;

(d)

that a failure to comply with the notice is an offence; and

(e)

the details of the right to appeal against the notice under regulation 19C.

(3)

An authorised officer may serve a notice on a person withdrawing, varying or suspending a compliance notice.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regs. 19A-19C inserted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 4(11)