Food Act 2014

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions - Transition to new requirements

427: Notices during authorised transition period

You could also call this:

"Notices the government can send you during a special time to help your food business follow the rules"

The chief executive can send you a notice during a special time called the authorised transition period. This notice might ask you to tell them some information about your food business. The chief executive can also send a notice to a territorial authority, which is like a local council, asking them to keep records or information about food businesses in their area.

The chief executive can ask a territorial authority to notify them about certain information, like what food businesses are in their area. They can also send a notice explaining how to inspect or check food businesses. When the chief executive sends a notice, it must say how long you have to follow the instructions.

You must follow the instructions in the notice if it applies to you or your food business. Before sending a notice, the chief executive must talk to people under section 380. A notice like this is called secondary legislation, which has its own rules for publication, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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426: New legislative requirements, or

"New Rules for Food Businesses Started After a Certain Date"

428: Statements about food produced or processed and handled under Food Act 1981, or

"Statements about food made under the old food law"

Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions: Transition to new requirements

427Notices during authorised transition period

The chief executive may issue a notice during the authorised transition period for each food sector requiring food businesses in the sector to notify the chief executive of information of a kind that the chief executive specifies in the notice.
The chief executive may issue a notice requiring a territorial authority to make a record of the food businesses in its district or the classes of food businesses in its district.
The chief executive may issue a notice requiring a territorial authority to keep information of a kind that the chief executive specifies about food businesses in its district or the classes of food businesses in its district.
The chief executive may issue a notice requiring a territorial authority to notify the chief executive of information of a kind that the chief executive specifies about food businesses in its district or the classes of food businesses in its district.
The chief executive may issue a notice specifying how inspections or verifications of food businesses in a territorial authority’s district are to be carried out.
A notice issued under this section must state the time within which it must be complied with.
A food business or territorial authority to which a notice under this section applies must comply with it.
The chief executive must consult under section 380 before issuing a notice under this section.
A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes

Section 427(9): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).