REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES REGULATIONS

REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 449.28

REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES

REGULATIONS

1st January, 2002

LEGAL NOTICE 180 of 2001, as amended by Legal Notice 136 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is the Registration of Food

Premises Regulations.

In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires -

"the Act" means the Food Safety Act;

''commercial operation'' in relation to food or contact material

means any of the following

(a) selling, processing for sale, and offering, exposing or

advertising for sale;

(b) consigning, delivering, or serving by way of sale;

(c) preparing for sale or presenting, labelling or wrapping

for the purpose of sale;

(d) storing or transporting for the purpose of sale;

(e) importing or exporting,

and, in relation to any food source, means deriving food from such

source for the purpose of sale or for purposes connected with sale;

''contact material'' means any article or substance which is

intended to come into contact with food;

''food business'' means any business in the course of which

commercial operations with respect to food or food sources are

carried out, including the import and export of food, and whether

carried on for profit or not;

''food premises'' means any premises used for the purpose of a

food business, including stalls, whether in open or indoor markets,

and vehicles, whether movable or not;

''Food Safety Commission'' means the Commission as defined by

article 2 and as set up by article 5 of the Act;

''proprietor'' in relation to a food premises means the person or

persons by whom the business is carried on and includes owners

and occupiers of premises, licence holders for the business or

premises, and the persons who appear on the Food Premises

Register, as provided for by these regulations.

(1) No person may use any premises as a food premises for

the purposes of a food business for three or more days, whether

consecutive or not, in any period of three consecutive weeks unless

such premises are registered with the Food Safety Commission.

(2) No food premises shall be used otherwise than in strict

compliance with the conditions of such registration or of such

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licence that may be imposed from time to time by the Food Safety

Commission.

(3) Registration of food premises or a food business under this

regulation shall not exempt the proprietor from any obligation to

apply for and acquire the necessary licences or permits that may be

required by any competent authority.

(1) Registration shall be carried out in writing on the

appropriate form acquired from the Food Safety Commission, duly

filled and forwarded to the designated office.

(2) Particulars given on the registration form shall not be

misleading, inaccurate or incomplete.

The Food Safety Commission shall keep a register, to be

styled the Food Premises Register.

(1) Where there is a change of proprietor of a food

business, the new proprietor shall, within twenty-eight days after

the date of the change, supply the Food Safety Commission with

the same particulars as are required by regulation 4.

(2) Where there is a change in the nature of a food business,

particulars of which are contained in the register referred to in

regulation 5, the proprietor of such business shall supply the Food

Safety Commission with particulars of the change not later than

twenty-eight days of its occurrence.

Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulations

3, 4 and 6 shall be guilty of an offence under the Act.