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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Plus 2 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.079 Right to have samples analysed. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Public analyst must analyse food samples and issue resultsLocal authority

s.086 Quarterly reports of analysts. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Public analysts must submit quarterly reports to their appointing authorityLocal authority

110 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Offences as to preparation and sale of injurious foods.

s.002 General protection for purchasers of food.

s.003 Defences in proceedings under s. 2.

s.004 Regulations as to composition of food etc.

s.005 Ministers’ power to obtain particulars of ingredients.

s.006 Food falsely described.

s.007 Regulations as to describing food.

s.008 Sale etc. of unfit food.

s.009 Examination and seizure of suspected food.

s.010 Food as prizes etc.

s.011 Food in transit.

s.012 Products of knackers’ yards.

s.013 Regulations as to food hygiene.

s.014 Court’s power to disqualify caterer.

s.015 Byelaws as to food.

s.016 Registration: ice-cream, sausages

s.017 Extension of s. 16 to other businesses.

s.018 Application for registration.

s.019 Refusal or cancellation of registration.

s.020 Regulations for licensing vehicles, stalls

s.021 Closure order.

s.022 Emergency order.

s.023 Compensation.

s.024 Appeals.

s.025 Offences against food premises control.

s.026 Ships.

s.027 Sale of ice-cream from stalls etc.

s.028 Prevention of spread of disease by ice-cream.

s.029 Sale of horseflesh.

s.030 Cleansing of shellfish.

s.031 Inspection and control of infected food.

s.032 Meaning of “dairy”, “dairy farm” etc.

s.033 Milk and Dairies Regulations.

s.034 Registration.

s.035 Sale of milk from diseased cows.

s.036 Adulteration.

s.037 Appointment of veterinary inspectors.

s.038 Milk (Special Designation) Regulations.

s.039 Restrictions.

s.040 Special designations: retail sales.

s.041 Special designations: catering.

s.042 Special designations: exemption.

s.043 Specified areas.

s.044 Milk processing facilities.

s.045 Breach of retailer’s licence.

s.046 Restriction on liability under s. 45.

s.047 Interpretation of ss. 39 to 46.

s.048 Misuse of designation “cream”.

s.049 Reconstituted cream.

s.050 Establishment or acquisition.

s.051 Power to sell to local authority.

s.052 Market days and hours.

s.053 Charges.

s.054 Time for payment of charges.

s.055 Recovery of charges.

s.056 Prohibited sales in market hours.

s.057 Weighing machines and scales.

s.057 Provision of cold stores.

s.059 Information for market officer.

s.060 Market byelaws.

s.061 Interpretation of Part III, and exclusion of City of London.

s.062 Application of Part IV.

s.064 Registration of food hawkers, and their premises.

s.065 Contravention of s. 64, and defence.

s.066 Application for registration.

s.067 Interpretation of Part IV, and exemptions.

s.068 Research and education.

s.069 Crop price.

s.069 Information.

s.070 Provision of cold storage.

s.071 Food and drugs authorities.

s.072 Local authorities for purposes of this Act.

s.073 Meaning of “authorised officer”.

s.074 Duty to enforce.

s.075 Joint boards.

s.076 Public analysts.

s.077 Facilities for examination.

s.078 Powers of sampling.

s.080 Samples taken for analysis.

s.081 Sampling of milk.

s.082 Sampling powers of Minister’s inspectors.

s.083 Minister’s power of direction.

s.084 Where division not practicable.

s.085 Examination of food not for sale.

s.087 Power to enter premises.

s.088 Additional power of entry.

s.089 Powers of entry of Ministers’ officers.

s.090 Movement of imported food.

s.091 Obstruction.

s.092 Offences triable either way.

s.093 Summary offences.

s.094 Offences by corporations.

s.095 Prosecutions.

s.097 Evidence of analysis.

s.110 Compulsory purchase of land.

s.111 Order to occupier to permit works.

s.112 Local Inquiries.

s.113 Default: local authorities etc.

s.114 Default: food and drugs authorities.

s.115 Expenses under ss. 113 and 114.

s.116 Officer acting in good faith.

s.117 Liability to rates no disqualification.

s.118 Certain regulations and orders.

s.119 EU provisions.

s.120 Statutory instruments.

s.121 Byelaws.

s.132 Interpretation: further provision.

s.133 Application to Crown.

s.135 Northern Ireland.

s.136 Citation, extent and commencement.

Schedules

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45 other schedules

s.sch009 Where a period of time specified in an enactment repealed...

s.sch009 Subject to section 43(1), the provisions of section 40(1) of...

s.sch009 (1) In section 303 of the Publlic Health Act 1875...

s.sch009 An order having effect immediately before the commencement of this...

s.sch009 (1) Any order made under regulation 2 of the Defence...

s.sch009 (1) Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of section 23(4)...

s.sch009 Section 252 (general power to adapt Acts and instruments) and...

s.sch010 In section 10(3) of the City of London (Various Powers)...

s.sch010 In subsections (3) and (7)(c) of section 4 of the...

s.sch010 In section 2(5) of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, for...

s.sch010 In section 22(2) of that Act— (a) for “ Food...

s.sch010 In section 62 of the Health Services and Public Health...

s.sch010 In section 132(1) of the Medicines Act 1968, in the...

s.sch010 In paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 3 to that Act, for...

s.sch010 In paragraph 7(2)(d) of Schedule 16 to the Transport Act...

s.sch010 In subsections (4) and (5) of section 25 of the...

s.sch010 In paragraph 15 of Part I of Schedule 1 to...

s.sch010 In section 10(7) of the Road Traffic Act 1972, for...

s.sch010 In section 13(3) of the London County Council (General Powers)...

s.sch010 In paragraph (a) of section 17(5) of the Greater London...

s.sch010 In paragraph (a) of section 8(4) of the Poisons Act...

s.sch010 In section 112(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, for...

s.sch010 In section 259(3) of that Act— (a) in paragraph (b)...

s.sch010 In section 2 of the Greater London Council (General Powers)...

s.sch010 In subsections (1) and (9) of section 30 of that...

s.sch010 In section 32(3) of that Act, for “subsection (5) of...

s.sch010 In paragraph (a) (ii) of section 18(3) of the National...

s.sch010 In the Slaughterhouses Act 1974— (a) in paragraph (a) of...

s.sch010 In section 12 of the Weights and Measures Act 1976—...

s.sch010 In paragraph (b) of section 41(1) of the Public Health...

s.sch010 In paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to that Act—

s.sch010 In section 22(2) of the City of London (Various Powers)...

s.sch010 In the Consumer Safety Act 1978— (a) in paragraph (b)...

s.sch010 In paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 5 to the Hydrocarbon Oil...

s.sch010 In paragraph 11(b) of Schedule 4 to the Local Government...

s.sch010 In paragraph (a) of section 3(2) of the Public Health...

s.sch010 In paragraph (d) of section 7(3) of that Act, for...

s.sch010 In paragraph (b) of section 20(1) of that Act, for...

s.sch010 In sections 29(3) and 58(1) of the Weights and Measures...

s.sch010 In paragraph 1(e) of Part I of Schedule 10 to...

s.sch010 For subsection (1) of section 54 of the London Government...

s.sch010 In paragraph (e) of section 4(1) and in section 4(2)...

s.sch010 In section 7(3) of that Act, for “Food and Drugs...

s.sch010 In section 25(2) of that Act, for “section 135(1) of...

s.sch011 The Table does not generally acknowledge transfers of ministerial functions....

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Food Act 1984

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What it requires

Schedules