InterpretationE+W
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;
“catering establishment” means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;
“designated product” means any cocoa or chocolate product specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, as read with any Note to that Schedule and any provision of regulation 3 and Schedule 2 relating to that product; and “designated chocolate product” and “designated cocoa product” mean any such product which is respectively a chocolate product or a cocoa product;
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“food authority” does not include—
the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change, or
the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner and the Middle Temple);
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“other edible substances” does not include vegetable fats referred to in regulation 3 or the filling of any product specified in column 2 of item 7 or of item 10(a) of Schedule 1;
“preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment;
[F3“Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004;]
“reserved description”, as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1;
“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and “sale” shall be construed accordingly; and
“ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than—
for the purpose of resale,
for the purposes of a catering establishment, or
for the purposes of a manufacturing business.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.6.2018) by virtue of The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), regs. 1(2), 18
F2Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), reg. 1(5)-(8), Sch. 7 para. 32(a)
F3Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), reg. 1(5)-(8), Sch. 7 para. 32(b)