2. In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;
“candy sugar” means crystalline sugar with crystals having any dimension greater than one centimetre;
“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;
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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 Temple and the Middle Temple);
“icing sugar” means fine particles of white sugar or extra-white sugar or mixtures thereof;
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“preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment and “prepared” shall be construed accordingly;
“reserved description”, as respects any specified sugar product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1 (as read with the notes relating to that Schedule) and the use of any such description in these Regulations shall be construed as meaning the product to which that description relates;
“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
“specified sugar product” means any food specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 (as read with the Notes relating to that Schedule) but does not include any such food in the form of icing sugar, candy sugar or sugar in loaf form;
“sugar in loaf form” means a piece of agglomerated crystalline sugar, usually conically shaped, weighing not less than 250 grammes; 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.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2 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), 17(2)
F2Words in reg. 2 omitted (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 29
