Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations –

• F1...

• “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;

• “designated product” means any cocoa or chocolate product specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, as read with any Note to that Schedule and any provision of regulation 3 and Schedule 2 relating to that product; and “designated chocolate product” and “designated cocoa product” mean any such product which is respectively a chocolate product or a cocoa product;

• F2...

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• “the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

• “other edible substances” does not include vegetable fats referred to in regulation 3 or the filling of any product specified in column 2 of item 7 or of item 10(a) of Schedule 1;

• “preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment;

• F3“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; F4as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

• “reserved description”, as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1;

• “sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale;

• “ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than –

  1. (a)

     for the purpose of resale,

  2. (b)

     for the purposes of a catering establishment, or

  3. (c)

     for the purposes of a manufacturing business.