20.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), these Regulations are enforced by the local authority.
(2) Schedule 2 is enforced by the Scottish Ministers in slaughterhouses and cutting plants.
(3) Schedule 7 and paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 of Schedule 8 are enforced by the [F1Food Standards Scotland] in slaughterhouses and cutting plants.
(4) The Scottish Ministers may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or any particular case, that an enforcement duty imposed on the local authority under this regulation is discharged by the Scottish Ministers and not by the local authority.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 20(3) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/100), arts. 1(2), 2, sch. para. 26