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4. The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Wales) Regulations 2007(1) are amended as follows—
(a)in regulation 28, for “24, 25, 26 or 27”, substitute “24 or 25”;
(b)after regulation 28, insert—
28A.—(1) Section 10(1) and (2) of the Act (improvement notices) applies, with the modification (in the case of section 10(1)) specified in Part 1 of the Schedule, for the purposes of—
(a)enabling an improvement notice to be served on a person requiring the person to secure compliance with any of the requirements specified in regulation 3(1) and (2); and
(b)making the failure to comply with a notice referred to in subparagraph (a) an offence.
(2) Section 32(1) to (8) of the Act (powers of entry) applies, with the modification (in the case of section 32(1)) specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, for the purposes of enabling an authorised officer of an enforcement authority—
(a)to exercise a power of entry to ascertain whether food that does not comply with the requirements of regulation 3 is, or has been, sold; and
(b)to exercise a power of entry to ascertain whether there is any evidence of any contravention of regulation 3.
(3) Section 35 of the Act (punishment of offences) applies, with the modification specified in Part 3 of the Schedule, for the purpose of specifying the punishment of an offence committed under paragraph (1)(b).
(4) Section 37(1), (3), (5) and (6) of the Act (appeals) applies, with the modification (in the case of section 37(1), (5) and (6)) specified in Part 4 of the Schedule, for the purpose of enabling a decision to serve a notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to be appealed.
(5) Section 39 of the Act (appeals against improvement notices) applies, with the modification (in the case of section 39(3)) specified in Part 5 of the Schedule, for the purpose of dealing with appeals against a decision to serve a notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a).”; and
(c)at the end of the Regulations, insert—
Regulation 28A
1. For section 10(1) (improvement notices) substitute—
“(1) If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is failing to comply with regulation 3 of the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Wales) Regulations 2007, the authorised officer may, by a notice served on that person (in this Act referred to as an “improvement notice”)—
(a)state the officer’s grounds for suspecting that the person is failing to comply or, as the case may be, that the food does not comply with the relevant provision;
(b)specify the matters which constitute the failure to so comply;
(c)specify the measures which, in the officer’s opinion, the person must take in order to secure compliance; and
(d)require the person to take those measures, or such measures that are at least equivalent to them, within such period as may be specified in the notice.”
2. For paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 32(1) (powers of entry) substitute—
“(a)to enter any premises within the authority’s area for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been any contravention of regulation 3 of the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Wales) Regulations 2007; and
(b)to enter any business premises, whether within or outside the authority’s area, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is on the premises any evidence of any contravention of that regulation;”.
3. In section 35 (punishment of offences), after subsection (1), insert—
“(1A) A person guilty of an offence under section 10(2), as applied by regulation 28A(1) of the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Wales) Regulations 2007, is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine.”
4. For section 37(1) (appeals) substitute—
“(1) Any person who is aggrieved by a decision of an authorised officer of an enforcement authority to serve an improvement notice under section 10(1) as applied and modified by regulation 28A(1) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Wales) Regulations 2007, may apply to the magistrates’ court.”
5. For section 37(5) substitute—
“(5) The period within which such an appeal as is mentioned in subsection (1) above may be brought shall be—
(a)one month from the date on which notice of the decision was served on the person desiring to appeal; or
(b)the period specified in the improvement notice,
whichever ends the earlier; and in the case of such an appeal, the making of the complaint shall be deemed for the purposes of this subsection to be the bringing of the appeal.”
6. In section 37(6)—
(a)for “(3) or (4)” substitute “(1)”; and
(b)in paragraph (a), omit “or to the sheriff”.
7. In section 39(3) (appeals against improvement notices), omit “for want of prosecution”.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 4 in force at 2.8.2016, see reg. 1(3)
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