{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/494",
  "legislation_title": "Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Revocation of approvals",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) and to regulation 7(3), an approval authority may, by notice in writing, given to the occupier of any premises approved under regulation 4 or 5, revoke that approval if it is satisfied—\n(a) that there is a failure in respect of the premises to comply with the relevant provisions of these Regulations;\n(b) an adequate health inspection of the premises is being hampered;\n(c) that the business carried on at the premises in respect of which the approval was granted is no longer being carried on there; or\n(d) that the premises have become exempt under regulation 3.\n(2) The approval authority shall state in any notice of revocation given by it under paragraph (1)—\n(a) the date on which the revocation is to take effect; and\n(b) the reasons for revocation.\n(3) An approval shall not be revoked under paragraph (1)(a) or (b) unless there is in force in relation to the premises—\n(a) a prohibition order under Article 10 of the Order; or\n(b) an emergency prohibition order under Article 11 of the Order,\nand under either such an order, meat products may no longer be handled or stored at the premises.\n(4) Where the approval authority gives a notice of revocation under paragraph (1), for the purposes of that paragraph “occupier”, in relation to any premises which are, at the time the notice was given, vacant, means the last person known to the approval authority to have carried on at the premises the business of producing, handling or storing meat products or other products of animal origin.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 8.12.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/191",
      "affecting_title": "Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/191",
      "affecting_title": "Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/191",
      "affecting_title": "Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/494/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:17.579450+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."
}