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If the Minister, after communication with a food and drugs authority, is of opinion—
(a)that the authority have failed in relation to any kind of food to execute or enforce any of the provisions of this Act which it is their duty to execute or enforce, and
(b)that their failure affects the general interests of consumers, or the general interests of agriculture in the United Kingdom,
he may by order empower an officer of his department to execute and enforce, or procure the execution and enforcement of, those provisions in relation to that kind of food.
Nothing in this section affects any other power exercisable by the Minister or a county council with respect to defaults of local authorities.
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