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Credit: Food Hygiene (General) Regulations 1970. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![SHA ON a @ YS INSTRUMENTS 1970 No. 1172 FOOD AND DRUGS The Food Hygiene (General) Regulations 1970 Made - - - 3rd August 1970 Laid before Parliament 18th August 1970 Coming into Operation Ist March 1971 The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Social Services, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 13 and 123 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a), as read with the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968(b), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the regulations and after reference to the Food Hygiene Advisory Council under section 82 of that Act, hereby make the following regulations :— ParT I PRELIMINARY Citation and commencement 1. These regulations may be cited as the Food Hygiene (General) Regula- tions 1970, and shall come into operation on Ist March 1971. Interpretation 2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires “the Act” means the Food and Drugs Act 1955 ; “animal feed” means feed for sale for consumption by animals, fish or birds, but does not include food fit for and commonly used for human consumption ; “business” includes the undertaking of a canteen, club, school, hospital or institution, whether carried on for profit or not, and any undertaking or activity carried on by a public or local authority ; “catering business” means a food business consisting wholly or partly of the supply of food intended by the supplier for immediate consumption ; “certificate of exemption” in relation to food premises, means a certificate for the time being in force in relation to the premises for the purposes of regulation 28 ; “container” includes any basket, pail, tray, box, package or receptacle of any kind, whether open or closed ; “equipment” includes apparatus, furnishings and utensils ; “fish” includes whalemeat ; (a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16. (b) S.I. 1968/1699 (1968 ITT, p. 4585). [H. 85]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32185236_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
