PART 2

Consumer information and traceability requirements in Wales

Improvement notice
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Section 10 of the Act (improvement notices) applies for the purposes of these Regulations with the following modifications.
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For subsection (1), substitute—
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If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for believing that an operator has not complied with, or is not likely to comply with, a consumer information requirement or a traceability requirement, the officer may, by notice served on that operator (in this Act referred to as an “improvement notice”)—
a
state the officer’s grounds for believing that the operator is failing to comply with those requirements;
b
specify the matters which constitute the operator’s failure so to comply;
c
specify the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the operator must take in order to secure compliance; and
d
require the operator to take those measures, or measures which are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice.
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For subsection (3), substitute—
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In this section—
a
“consumer information requirement” and “traceability requirement” have the meanings given by regulation 4(1) of the Fish Labelling (Wales) Regulations 2013;
b
“operator” has the same meaning as in the specified Regulations as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Fish Labelling (Wales) Regulations 2013 as read with regulation 2(2)(a) of those Regulations.
Reg. 5 in force at 26.9.2013, see reg. 1(2)
Reg. 5(3) modified (13.12.2014) by The Fish Labelling (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3079), regs. 1(3), 3
Word in reg. 5(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Food Standards and Labelling (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/435), regs. 1(3), 4(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)