Regulation 14 Charges by local authorities for meat inspection

(1)

Any charge made by a local authority by virtue of the last foregoing regulation shall be payable—

(a)

in respect of any animal slaughtered in a slaughterhouse other than a public slaughterhouse, by the person for the time being licensed in respect of that slaughterhouse under Part I of the Slaughterhouses Act 1974^f1;

(b)

in respect of any animal slaughtered in a public slaughterhouse, by the person on whose behalf the animal is slaughtered;

(c)

in any other case, by the person who informs the local authority of the slaughter in accordance with regulation 5.

(2)

Any charge due to a local authority by virtue of this and the last foregoing regulation shall be recoverable by them summarily as a civil debt.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1974 c. 3.