Regulation 9 Enforcement

The Agency must enforce the European poultrymeat provisions at slaughterhouses and cutting plants.

Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a food authority must enforce—

A port health authority must enforce these Regulations in its district in relation to poultrymeat imported from a third country.

The record keeping requirements in Article 12(2) and (4) of the Commission Regulation must be enforced by the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under these Regulations.

In this regulation—

• “food authority” means—

  1. (a)

     a county council;

  2. (b)

     a metropolitan district council;

  3. (c)

     a non-metropolitan district council for an area for which there is no county council;

  4. (d)

     a London borough council;

  5. (e)

     the Common Council of the City of London (in their capacity as a local authority); and

  6. (f)

     the Council of the Isles of Scilly; and

• “port health authority” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to the London port health district (within the meaning given by section 7(1) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 M1), the Common Council of the City of London; and

  2. (b)

     in relation to any port health district constituted by order under section 2(3) of that Act, the port health authority for that district.