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5. The Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (England) Regulations 2009(1) are amended as follows—
(a)after regulation 3, insert—
3A.—(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 the specified provisions contained in Schedule 1; 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 modifications (in the case of section 32(1)) specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2, 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 one or more of the specified provisions contained in Schedule 1 is, or has been, sold; and
(b)to exercise a power of entry to ascertain whether there is any evidence of any contravention of the specified provisions contained in Schedule 1.
(3) Section 35 of the Act applies, with the modifications specified in Part 3 of Schedule 2, for the purpose of specifying the punishment of an offence committed under paragraph (1)(b).
(4) Section 37(1) and (6) of the Act (appeals) applies, with the modifications specified in Part 4 of Schedule 2, 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 modifications (in the case of section 39(1) and (3)) specified in Part 5 of Schedule 2, for the purpose of dealing with appeals against a decision to serve a notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a).”;
(b)In the Schedule, for the title “THE SCHEDULE” substitute “SCHEDULE 1”; and
(c)After Schedule 1, insert—
1. For section 10(1) (improvement notices) substitute—
“(1) If an authorised officer of an enforcement authority in England has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is failing to comply with regulation 3A(1) to the Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (England) Regulations 2009, 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 3A(1) to the Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (England) Regulations 2009; 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. Section 32(9) does not apply.
4. In section 35, after subsection (1A), insert—
“(1B) A person guilty of an offence under section 10(2), as applied by regulation 3A(1) of the Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (England) Regulations 2009, is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine.”.
5. 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 3A(1) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, the Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (England) Regulations 2009, may apply to the First-tier Tribunal”.
6. Section 37(2) does not apply.
7. For section 37(3) substitute—
“(3) The appeals procedure under the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (General Regulatory Chamber) Rules 2009 applies to appeals made under subsection (1)”.
8. For section 37(5) substitute–
“(5) The notice of appeal period under rule 22 of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (General Regulatory Chamber) Rules 2009 applies to appeals made under subsection (1)”.
9. In section 37(6)—
(a)for “(3) or (4)” substitute “(1)”, and
(b)in paragraph (a), for “magistrates’ court or to the sheriff” substitute “the First-tier Tribunal”.
10. For section 39(1) (appeals against improvement notices) substitute—
“(1) On an appeal against an improvement notice served under section 10(1), as applied and modified by regulation 3A(1) of, and Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, the Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (England) Regulations 2009, the First-tier Tribunal may either cancel of affirm the notice and, if it affirms it, may do so either in its original form or with such modifications as the First-tier Tribunal may in the circumstances think fit.”.
11. In section 39(3), omit “for want of prosecution”.”.
S.I. 2009/3051, amended by S.I. 2011/1043.
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