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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 19th February 1998.
2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act" means the Food Safety Act 1990;
“bread" means a food of any size, shape or form which—
is usually known as bread, and
consists of a dough made from flour and water, with or without other ingredients, which has been fermented by yeast or otherwise leavened and subsequently baked or partly baked,
but does not include buns, bunloaves, chapatis, chollas, pitta bread, potato bread or bread specially prepared for coeliac sufferers;
“EEA Agreement" means the Agreement on the European Economic Area M1 signed at Oporto on 2 May 1992, as adjusted by the Protocol M2 signed at Brussels on 17 March 1993;
“EEA State" means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;
“enzyme preparation" means any food additive which consists of one or more enzymes with or without the addition of supplementary material to facilitate the storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution of the enzyme or enzymes;
“flour" means the product which is derived from, or separated during, the milling or grinding of cleaned cereal whether or not the cereal has been malted or subjected to any other process, and includes meal, but does not include other cereal products, such as separated cereal bran, separated cereal germ, semolina or grits;
“flour bleaching agent" means any food additive primarily used to remove colour from flour;
“flour treatment agent" means any food additive, other than an enzyme preparation, which is added to flour or dough to improve its baking quality;
“food additive" has the meaning assigned to it by [F1the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995][F1Article 3(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives];
“food authority" does not include—
the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county in England except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change;
the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple);
“ingredient" has the meaning assigned to it by [F2Article 2(2)(f) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011];
“labelling" has the meaning assigned to it by [F3Article 2(2)(j) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011];
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[F5“member State" means a member State of [F6the European Union];]
[F7“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;]
“sell" includes offer or expose for sale and includes have in possession for sale, and “sale" shall be construed accordingly.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall, unless the reference is to a regulation of, or Schedule to, specified regulations, be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (1.6.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), art. 1(2), reg. 15
F2Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(a); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(i) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(a)
F3Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(b); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(ii) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(b)
F4Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); words in reg. 2(1) omitted (S.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(iii) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) omitted (E.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(c)
F5Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); words in reg. 2(1) omitted (E.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(c)
F6Words in Instrument substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6, 8-10
F7Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(d); words in reg. 2(1) inserted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(iv) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) inserted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(d)
Marginal Citations
M1OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p. 1.
M2OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p. 571.
3.—(1) These Regulations, except in so far as they relate to advertising, shall not apply to any food which is not intended for sale for human consumption.
(2) These Regulations shall not apply in respect of—
(a)any bread brought into Great Britain from an EEA State in which it was lawfully produced and sold;
(b)any flour brought into Great Britain from a member State in which it was lawfully produced and sold;
(c)any bread or flour lawfully produced in another member State and brought into Great Britain from a member State in which it was lawfully sold;
(d)any bread or flour lawfully produced outside [F6the European Union] and brought into Great Britain from a member State in which it was in free circulation and lawfully sold,
which is suitably labelled to give the nature of the bread or flour.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, “free circulation" has the same meaning as in [F8Article 28(2), as read with Article 29, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union].
Textual Amendments
F6Words in Instrument substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6, 8-10
F8Words in reg. 3(3) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology or Numbering) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1809), art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 2 (with art. 2(2))
4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, flour derived from wheat and from no other cereal, whether or not mixed with other flour, shall contain the substances specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 in accordance with the proportions and conditions prescribed in column 2 of that Schedule and with Schedule 2.
(2) The requirements specified for item 1 in column 2 of Schedule 1 shall not apply in the case of—
(a)wholemeal flour,
(b)self-raising flour which has a calcium content of not less than 0.2 per cent, and
(c)wheat malt flour.
(3) The substances specified in items 2-4 of Schedule 1 shall, in the case of—
(a)wholemeal flour, be naturally present in the quantities specified in column 2 of that Schedule, and not added;
(b)flour other than wholemeal, be added where such addition is necessary in accordance with the conditions prescribed in column 2 of that Schedule.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5) below—
(a)no manufacturer of flour shall sell any flour which does not comply with this regulation; and
(b)no importer of flour shall—
(i)import into Great Britain any flour, or
(ii)sell any flour imported by him,
which does not comply with this regulation.
(5) Paragraph (4) above shall not apply as respects any sale or importation into Great Britain of flour for use in the manufacture of communion wafers, matzos, gluten, starch or any concentrated preparation for use for the purpose of facilitating the addition to flour of the substances referred to in Schedule 1.
5.—[F9(1) No person shall use as an ingredient in the preparation of flour or bread any flour bleaching agent.]
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Textual Amendments
F9Reg. 5(1) substituted for reg. 5(1)(2) (28.5.1999) by The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1136), regs. 1(1), 14(4)(a)
F10Reg. 5(3) revoked (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 6 Pt. 1; reg. 5(3) revoked (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 Pt. 1; reg. 5(3) revoked (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 6 Pt. 1 Entry 2
6.—(1) There shall not be used in the labelling or advertising of bread, as part of the name of the bread, whether or not qualified by other words—
(a)the word 'wholemeal’ unless all the flour used as an ingredient in the preparation of the bread is wholemeal;
(b)the word 'wheat germ’ unless the bread has an added processed wheat germ content of not less than 10 per cent calculated on the dry matter of the bread.
(2) No person shall sell or advertise for sale any bread in contravention of this regulation.
7.—(1) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with regulation 4(4), 5 or 6(2) he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(2) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed in Scotland by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
8. Each food authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations in its area.
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Textual Amendments
F11Reg. 9 revoked (E.) (1.1.2006) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2626), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 Pt. 1; reg. 9 revoked (W.) (1.1.2006) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3254), reg. 1, Sch. 6 Pt. 1; reg. 9 revoked (S.) (1.1.2006) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/616), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6,
10. The following provisions of the Act shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations and unless the context otherwise requires any reference in them to the Act or Part thereof shall be construed as a reference to these Regulations—
(a)section 2 (extended meaning of 'sale’ etc.);
(b)section 3 (presumption that food is intended for human consumption);
(c)section 20 (offences due to fault of another person);
(d)section 21 (defence of due diligence) as it applies for the purposes of section 8, 14 or 15;
(e)section 22 (defence of publication in the course of business);
(f)section 30(8) (which relates to documentary evidence);
(g)section 33 (obstruction etc. of officers);
(h)section 35(1) to (3) (punishment of offences) in so far as it relates to offences under section 33(1) and (2) as applied by paragraph (g) above;
(i)section 36 (offences by bodies corporate); and
(j)section 44 (protection of officers acting in good faith).
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Textual Amendments
F12Reg. 11 revoked (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 6 Pt. 1; reg. 11 revoked (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 Pt. 1; reg. 11 revoked (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 6 Pt. 1 Entry 2
12. The Regulations specified in column 1 of Schedule 4 are hereby revoked to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.
Jeff Rooker
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Tessa Jowell
Minister of State for Public Health,
Department of Health
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
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