The Marketing of Bananas Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Power to affix a non-compliance label

9.—(1) Where an authorised officer, who has lawfully entered premises for the purpose of the enforcement of the banana marketing standards and these Regulations, finds any bananas subject to the banana marketing standards which have affixed to them a label or are accompanied by a notice or a document required by the banana marketing standards or are in a container to which such a label is affixed or which is accompanied by such a notice or document—

(a) indicating in either case that those bananas are of a particular class under the banana marketing standards; but

(b) which the authorised officer has reasonable cause to believe to be of an inferior class under the banana marketing standards;

the authorised officer may amend or cancel the label, notice or document and may affix to those bananas, or, as the case may be, to the notice or container, a non-compliance label.

(2) A non-compliance label under this regulation and regulation 10 shall be—

(a) in the form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2; and

(b) completed in accordance with Part 2 of that Schedule.