Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. No. 171 of 2000).

Numerous amendments are made to various Regulations to provide for: licensing of premises, obligations of operators, appeals, reporting, offences, veterinary inspection and powers of inspectors, marketing of fresh meat, enforcement of regulations, prohibition to use certain equipment, certification of minced meat, etc. They impose revised requirements relating to the licensing of slaughterhouses, cutting premises, cold stores, farmed game handling facilities and farmed game processing facilities, and impose a further requirement that the Food Standards Agency must be informed of changes in the identity of those with management responsibilities in relation to premises licensed under the Fresh Meat Regulations, or who control the occupier of such premises (reg. 2(5) to (7)).