Food and drugs : the food hygiene (markets, stalls and delivery vehicles) regulations 1966.
- United Kingdom
- Date:
- 1966
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Food and drugs : the food hygiene (markets, stalls and delivery vehicles) regulations 1966. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![eneral Collections) STATUTORY, INSTRUMENTS Pp. 1966 No. 791 1. ( : FOOD AND DRUGS The Food Hygiene (Markets, Stalls and Delivery Vehicles) Regulations 1966 Made - > - 29th June 1966 Laid before Parliament Tth July 1966 Coming into Operation lst January 1967 The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister of Health, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 13 and 123 of-the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a) 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 Title and commencement 1. These regulations may be cited as the Food Hygiene (Markets, Stalls and Delivery Vehicles) Regulations 1966, and shall come into operation on Ist January 1967. Interpretation 2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— “the Act’? means the Food and Drugs Act 1955; ** 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 a food business, means a certi- ficate for the time being in force in relation to the business for the purposes of regulation 24; *“ container ” includes any basket, pail, tray, box or other receptacle of any kind, whether open or closed; *““ contamination ” includes contamination by odour, and “‘ contaminating ”’ shall be construed accordingly; (a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16. [M.H.728]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32185303_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
