Food Hygiene Rating Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (Chapter 3). Country/Territory United Kingdom Territorial subdivision Northern Ireland Document type Legislation Date 2016 Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to provide for the operation of a food hygiene rating scheme in Northern Ireland. Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Food quality control/food safety Hygiene/sanitary procedures Inspection Packaging/labelling Classification/declassification Vending Standards Data collection/reporting Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Offences/penalties Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Abstract This Act requires district councils to rate the food hygiene standards of food business establishments supplying food direct to consumers, following inspections carried out as part of official controls required by EU law. It allows the Department to make regulations to specify categories of establishment that would not be rated and to amend the definition of ‘food business establishment’, to enable other categories of establishment to be rated, for example, food establishments that supply food other than direct to consumers, such as trade to trade supply. Operators of food business establishments shall have a right of appeal against the rating and may request a re-rating. Full text English Website www.opsi.gov.uk References - Legislation Implemented by Food Hygiene Rating (Fee and Fixed Penalty Amount) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. No. 425 of 2016). Legislation | United Kingdom | 2016 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Inspection, Royalties/fees, Offences/penalties Source: FAO, FAOLEX Food Hygiene Rating Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. No. 313 of 2016). Legislation | United Kingdom | 2016 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Inspection, Classification/declassification, Vending, Packaging/labelling, Standards, Data collection/reporting, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Offences/penalties Source: FAO, FAOLEX