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(1)The Ministers may by order direct that section 16 shall have effect as if the purposes described in subsection (1) of that section included, except in such cases as may be prescribed by the order—
(a)the sale or preparation for sale of food for human consumption, or
(b)the storage of food intended for such sale,
in the course of any business of a class specified in the order.
(2)An order made under this section shall provide—
(a)for enabling premises used for purposes for which registration is required by the order to be registered under section 16 before the date when subsection (1) of that section becomes applicable to them by the order; and
(b)in relation to premises used for those purposes before that date, for excluding or restricting the power of the local authority to refuse applications for registration.
(3)The purposes for which registration is required by an order made under this section may include any purpose for which, apart from the order, registration would be required under section 16.
(4)Any such order—
(a)may repeal, in whole or in part, paragraph (a) or (b) of section 16(1); and
(b)may provide for continuing in force the registration of any premises for purposes to which the order applies.
(5)If—
(a)at the time when premises become registrable for any purpose by an order made under this section, local Act provisions with respect to the registration of premises used for any of those purposes are in force in any district, then
(b)section 16(1), as having effect by the order, shall not, so far as it relates to registration for purposes regulated by the local Act provisions, apply to that district until the Secretary of State, on the application of the local authority, declares it to be in force there.
(6)Where on an application made by a local authority under subsection (5) the Secretary of State declares section 16(1) to be in force in the authority’s district, then, upon the declaration taking effect, such of the local Act provisions referred to in sub-section (5) as may be specified in the declaration shall be repealed or, as the case may be, shall be repealed as respects the authority’s district.
(7)Any premises which immediately before the repeal of those provisons were registered under them for any of the purposes for which premises become registrable by virtue of the relevant order made under this section shall be deemed to have been registered under section 16 for the purpose in question.
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