{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-1995/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-1995/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3124",
  "legislation_title": "The Colours in Food Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Use of colours in or on food",
  "text": "(1) No person shall use in or on any food any colour other than a permitted colour.\n(2) No person shall use any permitted colour in or on any food listed in Schedule 2 except in accordance with paragraph 3(a) below.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below and to regulations 4, 5 and 6, no person shall use any permitted colour in or on any food unless—\n(a) the food is one listed—\n(i) in Column 1 of Schedule 3, in which case there may be used in or on such food any permitted colour which is listed in relation to it in Column 2 of Schedule 3 in an amount not exceeding the maximum level for such permitted colour in or on such food as listed in Column 3 of Schedule 3; or\n(ii) in Column 2 of Schedule 4, in which case there may be used in or on such food any permitted colour which is listed in relation to it in Column 1 of Schedule 4 in an amount not exceeding the maximum level for such permitted colour in or on such food as listed in Column 3 of Schedule 4; or\n(iii) in Part III of Schedule 5, in which case there may be used in or on such food any of the permitted colours listed in Parts I or II of Schedule 5 in accordance with the conditions contained in that Schedule governing the use of such colours in or on such foods;\n(b) the food is not listed in either Schedule 2 or in Column 1 of Schedule 3, in which case there may be used in or on such food any one or more of the permitted colours listed in Part I of Schedule 5 up to an amount (in each case) ofquantum satis.\n(4) No person shall use any permitted colour listed in Column 1 of Schedule 4 in or on any food other than the food or foods listed in relation to that permitted colour in Column 2 of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3124/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:55.708248+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."
}