{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Use of colours in or on compound foods",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), any food in or on which a permitted colour is used without contravening any of the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of regulation 3 may itself be used as an ingredient in a compound food in or on which the use of such colour is not otherwise permitted, and the presence in or on that compound food of such colour as a result of its containing such an ingredient shall not constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of those paragraphs of regulation 3.\n(2) There may be used in or on a food any permitted colour the use of which would otherwise constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of regulation 3, where such a food is destined to be used solely in the preparation of a compound food and the resulting presence in or on that compound food of such colour does not itself constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of those paragraphs of regulation 3.\n(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of any compound food listed in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}