1991 No. 100
FOOD

Food Safety (Improvement and Prohibition-Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1991

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales acting jointly as respects England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 49(2) of the Food Safety Act 19901, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations in accordance with section 48(4)(a) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Food Safety (Improvement and Prohibition-Prescribed Forms) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 14th February 1991.

Forms prescribed for certain purposes2.

The form of a document used for the purposes of the Food Safety Act 1990 and referred to in a numbered paragraph in the table of contents in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations is hereby prescribed as being that set out in the correspondingly numbered form in Part II of that Schedule.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed this 22nd day of January 1991.

Trumpington
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
William Waldegrave
Secretary of State for Health
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Scotland

Michael B. Forsyth
Minister of State, Scottish Office

SCHEDULEFORMS

Regulation 2

PART ITABLE OF CONTENTS

1.

Notice served by an authorised officer under section 10(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (“improvement notice”).

2.

Notice served by an authorised officer under section 12(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (“emergency prohibition notice”).

3.

Notice given under section 12(3) of the Food Safety Act 1990 by an authorised officer of his intention to apply for an emergency prohibition order (“notice of intention to apply for an emergency prohibition order”).

4.

Certificate issued by an enforcement authority under section 11(6)(a) or section 12(8) of the Food Safety Act 1990 that they are satisfied that the proprietor of a food business has taken sufficient measures to secure that the health risk condition is no longer fulfilled with respect to the business (“certificate that there is no longer a risk to health”).

5.

Notice given by an enforcement authority under section 11(7)(b) or section 12(9)(b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 that they are not satisfied that the proprietor of a food business has taken sufficient measures to secure that the health risk condition is fulfilled with respect to the business (“notice of continuing risk to health”).

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the forms of notice which may be used in connection with improvement notices under section 10 prohibition orders (other than those relating to proprietors) under section 11 and emergency prohibition notices or orders under section 121 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (regulation 2).