Improvement notice – application of Article 9 of the Order7

1

Article 9(1) and (2) of the Order (improvement notices) apply for the purposes of these Regulations with the following modification.

2

For paragraph (1), substitute—

1

If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with regulations 4(1), (2) or 5(1) of the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014, the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (in this Order referred to as an “improvement notice”)—

a

state the officer's grounds for believing that the person is failing to comply with the relevant provision;

b

specify the matters which constitute the person's failure so to comply;

c

specify the measures which, in the officer's opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and

d

require the person to take those measures, or measures that are at least equivalent to them, within such a period (not being less than 14 days) as may be specified in the notice.