The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) Regulations 2016

Interpretation E+W+S

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

[F1 “the Delegated Regulation” means Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/128 supplementing Regulation (EU) No. 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the specific compositional and information requirements for food for special medical purposes;]

“food authority” means—

(a)

a county council;

(b)

a metropolitan district council;

(c)

a non-metropolitan district council for an area for which there is no county council;

(d)

a London borough council;

(e)

the Common Council of the City of London (in their capacity as a local authority); and

(f)

the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

[F2 “food for special medical purposes” has the same meaning in these Regulations as in the EU Regulation;]

[F2 “infant” means a child under the age of 12 months;]

“the EU Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives 96/8/EC, 1999/21/EC, 2006/125/EC and 2006/141/EC, Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) No 41/2009 and (EC) No 953/2009;

“specified EU requirement” means any provision of the EU Regulation [F3 or the Delegated Regulation] specified in column 1 of Schedule 1, as read with the provisions in column 2.

(2) Where any functions under the Act are assigned to a port health authority by an order under section 2 or 7 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 M1 , any reference in these Regulations to a food authority shall be construed, so far as relating to those functions, as a reference to the port health authority to which they are assigned.

(3) Except where otherwise provided, any reference in these Regulations to—

(a) a regulation is a reference to a regulation of these Regulations;

(b) an Article or Annex is a reference to an Article or Annex of the EU Regulation.

(4) Any reference to a provision of the EU Regulation contained in the table in Schedule 1 describing specified EU requirements, except a reference to Article 1(1), is a reference to that provision as amended from time to time.

[F4 (5) Any reference to a provision of the Delegated Regulation contained in the table in Schedule 1 is a reference to that provision as amended from time to time.

F5 (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (22.2.2019) by The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/44), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(i)

F2 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (22.2.2019) by The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/44), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(ii)

F3 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (22.2.2019) by The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/44), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(iii)

F4 Reg. 2(5)(6) inserted (22.2.2019) by The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/44), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)

F5 Reg. 2(6) omitted (22.2.2020) by virtue of The Food for Specific Groups (Food for Special Medical Purposes for Infants, Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula) (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment etc.) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/43), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 2

Marginal Citations

M1 1984 c. 22. Section 7(3) was amended by the Food Safety Act 1990.