The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Right of appeal against feed business improvement notices

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23.—(1) Any person who is aggrieved by a decision of an authorised officer to serve a feed business improvement notice may appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction.

(2) The procedure on an appeal to a Magistrates Court under paragraph (1) shall be by way of notice under Part VII of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

(3) The period within which an appeal under paragraph (1) may be brought is -

(a)one month from the date on which notice of the decision was served on the person desiring to appeal; or

(b)if it is shorter, the period specified in the notice pursuant to regulation 22(1)(d),

and a notice under Part VII deemed for the purposes of this paragraph to be the bringing of the appeal.