{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cocoa-and-chocolate-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Vegetable fats in chocolate products",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the vegetable fats, other than cocoa butter, specified in Schedule 2 may be added to those designated chocolate products specified in column 2 of items 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 of Schedule 1.\n(2) An addition in accordance with paragraph 1 may not exceed 5 per cent of the finished product, after deduction of the total weight of any other edible substances used in accordance with Note 1 to Schedule 1, without reducing the minimum content of cocoa butter or total dry cocoa solids.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}