Regulation 20 Enforcement

The Secretary of State enforces Schedule 2 TSE monitoring requirements in slaughterhouses and cutting plants.

The Food Standards Agency enforces Schedule 7 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 in slaughterhouses and cutting plants.

Otherwise these Regulations are enforced by the local authority.

The Secretary of State may direct, in relation to any particular case that an enforcement duty imposed on the local authority must be discharged by the Secretary of State and not by the local authority.

Where the Secretary of State makes a direction under paragraph (4), the Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under these Regulations.