{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/49",
  "legislation_title": "Colours in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "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).\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) 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;\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 and 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) of quantum 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": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 22.4.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/49",
      "affecting_title": "Colours in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/49/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:20.234202+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."
}