Draft Report
CLA320 - The Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Regulations 2013
Procedure: Affirmative
These draft regulations provide much of the detail of how the new food hygiene rating scheme established in Wales by the Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013 (“the Act”) will operate in Wales.
Technical Scrutiny
No points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.2 in respect of this instrument
Merits Scrutiny
The following points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.3 in respect of this instrument.
These are the first set of regulations made under the Act. They are necessary to give full effect to the new statutory food hygiene rating scheme established by the Act. They make provision largely in relation to technical administrative matters, such as the form of the sticker and the forms to be used to make appeals or request re-ratings, but they also deal with more substantive matters, such as providing for ratings to be based on inspections carried out before the Act commences, and prescribing categorise of establishment that are exempt from rating.
SO 21.3 (ii) – that it is of political or legal importance or gives rise to issues of public policy likely to be of interest to the Assembly.
Legal Advisers
Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee
October 2013