The Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Regulations 2013

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Regulations 2013.

(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force at 00:01 hours on 28 November 2013.

(3) Regulation 8 comes into force on 28 November 2014.

(4) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(5) In these Regulations—

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013;

“establishment” (“sefydliad”) means a food business establishment;

“the highest rating” (“y sgôr uchaf”) means a rating of “5 - Very Good”;

“including” (“gan gynnwys”) and “includes” (“yn cynnwys”) are to be construed without limitation;

“inspection report” (“adroddiad arolygu”)means a written report giving details of matters found by an authorised officer when carrying out a food hygiene rating inspection of an establishment in order to assess its food hygiene standards in accordance with section 3(1) of the Act;

“rating” (“sgôr”) means a food hygiene rating given under the Act but not a non-statutory rating as defined in regulation 2(4);

“rating breakdown” (“dadansoddiad sgôr”) in relation to a food business establishment means a breakdown of the rating given to that establishment into its component scores for each of the rating criteria; and

“sticker” (“sticer”) means a food hygiene rating sticker.