The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

1.  These Regulations, which apply in relation to England only, further amend the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1763 as already amended), which extend to the whole of Great Britain.

2.  These Regulations revoke paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 1A to S.I. 1995/1763, which respectively provide that —

(a) a licence for a butcher’s shop issued under that Schedule remains in force for a year from the date of issue; and

(b) if a licence is granted to a person who has held a licence for not less than 8 months and both licences relate to the same premises, the further licence becomes operative for a period of a year beginning on the expiry of the existing licence (regulation 2(2)).

3.  These Regulations also provide that any licence issued under Schedule 1A to S.I. 1995/1763 before the date of coming into force of these Regulations that is in force on that date shall remain in force regardless of the day on which it was issued (regulation 3).

4.  No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations.