Food Hygiene registration?

This is all very interesting. The legislation came in a while ago now and is pretty straightforward as far as registration is concerned - if you sell or give food to others, as part of a business or voluntary enterprise, then you have to be registered with the local authority as doing so. There was no roll out across the UK, the law applied to all parts of the country on the same day. Surestart Advisers, Local Authority Education Dept employees etc telling anyone "it doesn't apply here yet", "it doesn't apply to childminders" are, I believe, simply riding rough shod through the regulations and behaving, as so often is the case, as laws unto themselves.