Transitional provisionN.I.
18—(1) The Department may by order make transitional or saving provision in connection with the commencement of a provision of this Act.
(2) An order under this section may provide that where, before the commencement of section 1, a district council has inspected an establishment and rated its food hygiene standards on the basis of that inspection, the council may treat that rating as the establishment's food hygiene rating until it prepares a new food hygiene rating for the establishment under this Act.
(3) An order making provision under subsection (2) must require the district council to notify the establishment's food hygiene rating to the operator of the establishment within such period as is specified; and such provision is to have effect instead of section 2(1).
(4) Where a district council has rated an establishment's food hygiene standards on more than one occasion before the commencement of section 1, the reference in subsection (2) to the rating is to the last one it carried out before the commencement of that section.