{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3082",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Approval of ambient stores, rewrapping centres and cold stores",
  "text": "(1) After 31st December 1995 no person shall use any ambient store, rewrapping centre or cold store for the handling or storage of meat products unless—\n(a) it is approved under this regulation or licensed under the Hygiene Regulations; and\n(b) it complies with the appropriate requirements of Schedule 3.\n(2) No person shall despatch any meat products to a relevant EEA State from an ambient store, rewrapping centre or cold store which is not approved under this regulation.\n(3) The approval authority, on application under this regulation—\n(a) shall approve the premises to which the application relates—\n(i) as an ambient store for the storage of meat products if the authority is satisfied that the occupier will comply with the requirements of Part I of Schedule 3; and\n(ii) as a rewrapping centre for the handling or storage of meat products if the authority is satisfied that the occupier will comply with the requirements of Part II of Schedule 3; and\n(b) otherwise shall refuse to approve them for either of those purposes.\n(4) The approval authority on application under this regulation—\n(a) shall approve the premises to which the application relates as a cold store for the storage of meat products if they are already licensed as a cold store for the storage of fresh meat or fresh poultry meat; and\n(b) if the premises are not already so licensed, shall approve them as a cold store for the storage of meat products if the authority is satisfied that they comply with the requirements of Part III of Schedule 3; and\n(c) otherwise shall refuse to approve the premises as a cold store for the storage of meat products.\n(5) Each application for an approval under this regulation shall be made in writing by the occupier of, or a person proposing to occupy, the premises to which the application relates.\n(6) The approval authority shall notify the applicant in writing of the decision on an application under this regulation and of the reasons for any refusal to grant approval.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/2198",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/225",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/171",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3082/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:43.011400+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."
}