PART IIIADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Administration
Enforcement of this Order26
F11
Subject toF2 paragraphs (1A) and (1B), the provisions of this Order shall be enforced and executed by each district council within its district.
1A
The Department of Agriculture shall enforce and execute such provisions of this Order as may be specified by order.
F21B
The Food Standards Agency shall enforce and execute such provisions of this Order as may be specified by order.
2
F1TheF2 Department may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or a particular case, that any duty imposed on district councils by paragraph (1) shall be discharged byF1F2 the Department, the Department of Agriculture or the Food Standards Agency or any person who is generally or specially authorised in writing byF2 the Department, the Department of Agriculture or the Food Standards Agency and not by those councils.
3
Regulations or orders shall specify which authorities are to enforce and execute them, either generally or in relation to cases of a particular description or a particular area, and any such regulations or orders may provide for the giving of assistance and information, by any authority concerned in the administration of the regulations or orders, or of any provisions of this Order, to any other authority so concerned, for the purposes of their respective duties under them.
F23A
Regulations or orders under paragraph (3) may specify the Food Standards Agency as an authority to enforce and execute them and references in that paragraph to any authority concerned include references to the Food Standards Agency.
4
F24A
The Food Standards Agency may take over the conduct of any such proceedings but (unless the Agency has been directed to do so under paragraph (4)) only with the consent of the district council which instituted them.
Para. (5) rep. by 1996 NI 12