The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 384

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 Preliminary

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Scope

3. PART 2 General Requirements for Materials and Articles

   1. 4. Offences of contravening specified provisions of Regulation 1935/2004

   2. 5. Offences of contravening Article 4 of Regulation 2023/2006

   3. 6. Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 1935/2004 and Regulation 2023/2006

4. PART 3 Requirements for Active and Intelligent Materials and Articles

   1. 7. Offences of contravening specified provisions of Regulation 450/2009

   2. 8. Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 450/2009

5. PART 4 Requirements for Ceramic Articles

   1. 9. Interpretation of this Part

   2. 10. Limits for lead and cadmium and declaration of compliance

6. PART 5 Requirements for Regenerated Cellulose Film

   1. 11. Interpretation of this Part

   2. 12. Controls and limits

7. PART 6 Requirements for Plastic Materials and Articles

   1. 13. Interpretation of Part 6 and the Schedule

   2. 14. Offences of contravening specified provisions of Regulation 10/2011

   3. 15. Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 10/2011

8. PART 7 Requirements for certain epoxy derivatives

   1. 16. Restrictions on the use of certain epoxy derivatives (BADGE, BFDGE and NOGE)

   2. 17. Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 1895/2005

9. PART 7A Requirements for bisphenol A in varnishes and coatings intended to come into contact with food

   1. 17A. Interpretation of Part 7A

   2. 17B. Offences of contravening specified provisions of Regulation 2018/213

   3. 17C. Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 2018/213

10. PART 8 Requirements for Vinyl chloride

    1. 18. Requirements on materials and articles manufactured with vinyl chloride

11. PART 9 Enforcement

    1. 19. Offences and penalties

    2. 20. Enforcement

    3. 21. Offences due to the act or default of a third party

    4. 22. Time limit for prosecutions

    5. 23. General defences

    6. 24. Procedure where a sample is to be analysed

    7. 25. Secondary analysis by the Government Chemist

    8. 26. Application of various provisions of the Order

12. PART 10 General and supplementary

    1. 27. Consequential amendment to the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

    2. 28. Amendment to the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

    3. 29. Revocations

13. Signature

14. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

       Specified provisions of Regulation 10/2011

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       Application of provisions of the Order

       1. PART 1 Modification of Article 9(1)

          1. 1. For Article 9(1) (improvement notices) substitute— (1) If an authorised...

       2. PART 2 Application and modification of other provisions of the Order

15. Explanatory Note