17.—(1) An authorised officer who has reasonable grounds for believing that a feed business operator is failing to comply with specified feed law, may by a notice served on that person (in these Regulations referred to as a “feed business improvement notice”)–
(a)state the officer’s grounds for believing that the feed business operator is failing to comply with specified feed law;
(b)specify the matters which constitute the feed business operator’s failure to comply;
(c)specify the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the feed business operator must take in order to secure compliance; and
(d)require the feed 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 feed business improvement notice is guilty of an offence.
(3) A feed business improvement notice must state the right to appeal under regulation 18 and the appropriate time limit for bringing any such appeal.