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SCHEDULEE+WModification of provisions of the Act

PART 1E+WModification of section 10(1)

1.  For section 10(1) (improvement notices) substitute—E+W

(1) If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with any of Articles 3 to 6 and 8 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1337/2013 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for fresh, chilled and frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry, or regulation 5 of the Country of Origin of Certain Meats (England) Regulations 2015, the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (in this Act referred to as an “improvement notice”)—

(a)state the officer’s grounds for believing that the person is failing to comply with the relevant provision;

(b)specify the matters which constitute the person’s failure so to comply;

(c)specify the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and

(d)require the person to take those measures, or measures that are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice..

Commencement Information

I1Sch. para. 1 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(1)