{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advertising-less-healthy-food-definitions-and-exemptions-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1266",
  "legislation_title": "The Advertising (Less Healthy Food Definitions and Exemptions) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advertising-less-healthy-food-definitions-and-exemptions-regulations-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations define “less healthy food or drink products”, “food or drink SMEs” and “services connected to regulated radio services” for the purposes of the restrictions on advertising less healthy food set out in sections 321A, 368FA and 368Z14 of the Communications Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”), as inserted by the Health and Care Act 2022.\nThe Regulations also exempt from the prohibition in section 368Z14 of the 2003 Act on paid-for advertising of less healthy food or drink, those advertisements included—\n(a) in an audio service (other than visual advertisements),\n(b) in television licensable content services regulated under the 2003 Act (“a regulated TV service”), or\n(c) in a television licensable content service which is not regulated under the 2003 Act, provided all programmes and advertisements shown on the unregulated service are the same as those shown on a regulated TV service.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/996232/impact-assessment-hfss-advertising.pdf and from the Department of Health and Social Care at 39 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0EU.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1266/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:20.796082+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}