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Food Act 2014

Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement - Powers and enforcement - Compliance orders

332: Notification of application

You could also call this:

"Telling people about your food safety application"

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When you apply for a compliance order, the chief executive or your local council must tell everyone affected by your application. They must do this within 5 working days of your application being filed in court. You can find more information about this in the court process.

If the court allows it, they can take longer than 5 working days to tell everyone. The court will decide if more time is needed. This rule does not apply if an interim compliance order is made under section 335.

You should know that the people telling everyone about your application are just following the rules. The chief executive or your local council must follow these steps when you apply for a compliance order. They have to serve notice to everyone affected, and they have to do it on time.

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Part 4Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement
Powers and enforcement: Compliance orders

332Notification of application

  1. The chief executive or, as the case may be, the territorial authority concerned must serve notice of the application on every person whom it directly affects.

  2. The notice must be served within—

  3. 5 working days after the date on which the application is filed in the court; or
    1. a longer time that the court allows.

      1. Nothing in this section applies to an interim compliance order made under section 335.