Authorised officer: power to affix a non compliance label6

1

Where an authorised officer, who has lawfully entered premises for the purpose of the enforcement of these regulations, finds horticultural produce subject to a specific marketing standard which has affixed to it a label or is accompanied by a notice or a document required by Community marketing rules, or is 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 that horticultural produce is of a particular class under the relevant specific marketing standard; but

b

which the authorised officer has reasonable cause to believe to be of an inferior class under that specific marketing standard,

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

2

For the purposes of regulations 6, 7 and 8, a non compliance label shall be–

a

in the form set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and

b

completed in accordance with Part II of that Schedule.