{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“authorised officer” (“swyddog awdurdodedig”) in relation to a food authority has the meaning given in section 5(6) of the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“bread” (“bara”) means a food of any size, shape or form which—\n(a)is usually known as bread, and\n(b)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,\nbut does not include buns, bunloaves, chapatis, chollas, pitta bread, potato bread or bread specially prepared for coeliac sufferers;\n“common wheat” (“gwenith cyffredin”) means Triticum aestivum L.;\n“flour” (“blawd”) 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;\n“food” (“bwyd”) has the meaning given in section 1(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“food authority” (“awdurdod bwyd”) refers to a food authority in Wales within the meaning given in section 5(1A) of the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“ingredient” (“cynhwysyn”) has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(f) of Regulation (EU) No1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers;\n“labelling” (“labelu”) has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(j) of Regulation (EU) No1169/2011;\n“sell” (“gwerthu”) includes—\n(a)offering, exposing or possessing for sale, and\n(b)the extended meaning of sale in section 2 of the Food Safety Act 1990 as applied by regulation 13 of these Regulations;\n“wholemeal flour” (“blawd gwenith cyflawn”) means the flour consisting of the whole of the product obtained from the milling or grinding of cleaned cereals.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 19.2.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 5(6) was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999. That amendment took effect subject to section 40(3) of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 5(1A) was inserted by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), Schedule 9, paragraph 16(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "EUR 2011/1169; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2019/529, 778, 2020/1627. S.I. 2019/529 was amended by S.I. 2020/1501."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 2 was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999. That amendment took effect subject to section 40(3) of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/88/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:58:42.283241+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."
}