{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Sale of colours and food containing colours",
  "text": "(1) No person shall sell any colour for use in or on food unless such colour is a permitted colour.\n(2) No person shall sell directly to the consumer any colour other than a specified permitted colour.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a “specified permitted colour” shall be any permitted colour other than—\n(a) E 123 Amaranth;\n(b) E 127 Erythrosine;\n(c) E 128 Red 2G;\n(d) E 154 Brown FK;\n(e) E 160B Annatto, bixin, norbixin;\n(f) E 161g Canthaxanthin;\n(g) E 173 Aluminium; and\n(h) E 180 Litholrubine BK.\n(4) No person shall sell any food having in it or on it any added colour other than a permitted colour that has been used in or on that food without contravening any of the provisions of regulations 3, 4, 5 and 6.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}