{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cocoa-and-chocolate-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/313",
  "legislation_title": "Cocoa and Chocolate Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cocoa-and-chocolate-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations –\n...\n“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;\n“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;\n...\n...\n“the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n“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;\n“preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment;\n“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; as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council.\n“reserved description”, as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1;\n“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale;\n“ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than –\n(a)for the purpose of resale,\n(b)for the purposes of a catering establishment, or\n(c)for the purposes of a manufacturing business.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/223), reg. 1(2), Sch. 7 para. 8(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (11.2.2019) by virtue of The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/5), regs. 1(1), 8(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/223), reg. 1(2), Sch. 7 para. 8(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (11.2.2019) by The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/5), regs. 1(1), 8(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 3.8.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/313/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:14.278575+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."
}