The Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Regulations 2013

Food hygiene ratings for establishments assessed prior to the commencement of the Act

2.—(1) This regulation applies to an establishment that has been given a non-statutory rating prior to 28 November 2013 and has not been assessed for rating purposes after that date.

(2) The food authority for the area in which the establishment is registered or approved must give the establishment a rating by no later than 28 May 2015.

(3) In giving the establishment a rating under this regulation, the food authority must apply the rating criteria to the non-statutory assessment.

(4) In this regulation—

“non-statutory assessment” means an assessment of the food hygiene standards at an establishment produced by a food authority that contains all of the information that was used to calculate a non-statutory rating for the establishment; and

“non-statutory rating” means a food hygiene rating given to an establishment under the FSA’s non-statutory food hygiene rating scheme that was launched in Wales in October 2010(1).

(1)

“The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland” available at http://ratings.food.gov.uk/.