SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11Public health protection: further amendments

Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984

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(1)

Section 64 of the 1984 Act (restriction on right to prosecute) is amended as follows.

(2)

For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

Proceedings in respect of an offence created by a provision of, or regulations under, this Act may not be taken by any person other than—

(a)

a relevant health protection authority,

(b)

a body whose function it is to enforce the provision or regulation in question, or

(c)

a person who made (or whose predecessors made) the regulation in question.”

(3)

Subsection (2) is omitted.