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(1)Where a local authority receive from the occupier of, or a person proposing to occupy, any premises an application for the grant or renewal of a licence authorising him to occupy those premises as a knacker’s yard, then, subject to subsections (3) and (4) below, the authority may grant or, as the case may be, renew the licence.
(2)Without prejudice to subsection (1) above and subject to section 6 below, a local authority may refuse to grant or, as the case may be, renew a knacker’s yard licence in respect of any premises if they are not satisfied that the requirements relating to knackers’ yards—
(a)of regulations under [F1section 16 of the Food Safety Act 1990], or
(b)of byelaws, if any, made by the authority under section 12 below,
are complied with in respect of those premises, or will be complied with before the date on which the licence or renewed licence comes into force.
(3)Subject to section 6 below, a local authority shall refuse to grant or, as the case may be, renew a knacker’s yard licence in respect of any premises unless they are satisfied that the requirements relating to knackers’ yards of construction regulations F2. . .are complied with in respect of those premises, or will be complied with before the date on which the licence or renewed licence comes into force.
(4)A local authority shall not grant or renew a knacker’s yard licence until an officer of the authority has inspected the premises named in the application and has made a report on those premises.
(5)A local authority may require a person who applies for the grant or renewal of a knacker’s yard licence to give to them, before his application is considered, information as to any other licence [F3which he has held] in respect of a slaughterhouse or [F4which he holds or has held in respect of a knacker’s yard], either in their district or in the district of another local authority [F3, or as to any slaughterhouse licence which he holds or has held]; and if an applicant who is so required gives the authority any information which is false in a material respect, he shall be guilty of an offence.
[F5(6)In subsection (5) above, “slaughterhouse licence” means a licence issued under regulations made by virtue of section 19(1)(b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 F6 for the use of any premises as a slaughterhouse.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), s. 59(1), Sch. 3 para. 18(b)
F2Words in s. 4(3) repealed (1.4.1995) by S. I. 1995/731, reg. 28(2), Sch. 14, para. 2(2)
F3Words inserted in s. 4(5) (11.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/2235, art. 5(1)(a)(c)
F4Words in s. 4(5) substituted (11.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/2235, art. 5(1)(b)
F5S. 4(6) inserted (11.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/2235, art. 5(2)
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