20.—(1) The Secretary of State enforces Schedule 2 in slaughterhouses and cutting plants.
(2) The Food Standards Agency enforces Schedule 7 and paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 of Schedule 8 in slaughterhouses and cutting plants.
(3) Otherwise these Regulations are enforced by the local authority.
(4) The Secretary of State may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or any particular case, that an enforcement duty imposed on the local authority under this regulation must be discharged by the Secretary of State and not by the local authority.
[F1(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1) or where the Secretary of State makes a direction under paragraph (4), the Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under these Regulations.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 20(5) added (24.12.2012) by The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2897), arts. 1(1), 37