6.—(1) If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for believing that a food business operator is failing to comply with the Hygiene Regulations, he may by a notice served on that person (in these Regulations referred to as a “hygiene improvement notice”) —
(a)state the officer’s grounds for believing that the food business operator is failing to comply with the Hygiene Regulations;
(b)specify the matters which constitute the food business operator’s failure to comply;
(c)specify the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the food business operator must take in order to secure compliance; and
(d)require the food business operator to take those measures, or measures which are at least equivalent to them, within such period (not being less than 14 days) as may be specified in the notice.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with a hygiene improvement notice shall be guilty of an offence.