Explanatory Notes

Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013

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4 March 2013

Commentary on Sections

Section 10 – Promoting food hygiene ratings

25.Section 10 provides the Welsh Ministers with power to make regulations to require an operator of a food business establishment (or a person acting on the operator’s behalf) to promote the establishment’s food hygiene rating.

26.The regulations may prescribe how the operator must publicise their establishment’s rating electronically and in material promoting the food provided by the establishment. The regulations may also make different provision for different types of establishment, create an offence, impose a penalty or allow for enforcement of the requirement.