Food Act 2004
142Savings: registration as eating house under Public Health
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142 Savings: registration as eating house under Public Health (Eating Houses) Regulations (1) If, immediately before the commencement of Part 7, a certificate of registration of an eating house issued under regulation 13 of the Public Health (Eating Houses) Regulations was in force, on and after that commencement the certificate continues in force as if it were the registration of a food business until the period the certificate would, but for that commencement, have been in force under those Regulations expires. (2) This Act applies to and in relation to each certificate of registration referred to in subsection (1), and the certificate may be dealt with under this Act, as if it were the registration of a food business granted under section 72. (3) Subject to the appearance of a contrary intention, a reference in any Act, instrument of a legislative or administrative character or other document to an eating house within the meaning of the repealed Food Act is, on and after the commencement of this Act, taken to be and to have effect as if it were a reference to a food