{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2012/regulation-19A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2012/regulation-19A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2619",
  "legislation_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/19A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19A",
  "heading": "Compliance notices",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) A compliance notice must state—\n(a) the reason for the service of the notice and the steps the person on whom the notice has been served must take;\n(b) the date and, if appropriate, the time by which each step must be taken;\n(d) that a failure to comply with the notice is an offence; and\n(e) the details of the right to appeal against the notice under regulation 19C.\n(3) An authorised officer may serve a notice on a person withdrawing, varying or suspending a compliance notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2619/regulation/19A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:16:18.668965+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}