PART 6Enforcement and miscellaneous provisions

Application of the Act: improvement notices33

1

The provisions of section 10 of the Act specified in column 1 of Table 1 of Schedule 12 apply for the purpose of these Regulations, with the modifications specified in column 2 of that table to enable an authorised officer of a food authority to serve an improvement notice on any person who is failing to comply with regulations 8 to 22 of these Regulations or a provision of Regulation 115/2010 mentioned in column 2 of Table 1 of Schedule 12.

2

Paragraph (1) is without prejudice to the application of section 10 of the Act for purposes other than those specified in paragraph (1).

3

An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve an improvement notice under section 10(1) of the Act, as applied and modified in accordance with paragraph (1), if—

a

the improvement notice would relate to water bottled and labelled before 28November 2015; and

b

the matters constituting the alleged contravention would not have constituted an offence under the Regulations listed in regulation 37.

F14

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .