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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/condensed-milk-and-dried-milk-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Condensed Milk and Dried Milk (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/condensed-milk-and-dried-milk-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“catering establishment” means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;\n“designated product” means any food specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations (as read with the Notes relating to that Schedule);\n“Directive 79/1067/EEC” means First Commission Directive 1979/1067/EEC laying down Community methods of analysis for testing certain partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk for human consumption;\n“Directive 87/524/EEC” means First Commission Directive 1987/524/EEC laying down Community methods of sampling for chemical analysis for the monitoring of preserved milk products;\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;\n“partly dehydrated milk” means the liquid product, whether or not sweetened, obtained ... by the partial removal of water from milk, from wholly or partly skimmed milk or from a mixture of these products and includes such a product to which cream or totally dehydrated milk or both have been added provided the addition of totally dehydrated milk does not exceed, in the finished product, 25% of total milk solids;\n“preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment and “prepared” shall be construed accordingly;\n“Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods;\n...\n“reserved description”, as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations or any alternative description permitted by Schedule 2 to these Regulations and the use of any such description in these Regulations shall be construed as meaning the product to which that description relates;\n“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale and “sale” and “sold” shall be construed accordingly;\n“totally dehydrated milk” means the solid product, where the water content does not exceed 5% by weight of the finished product, obtained ... by the removal of water from milk, from wholly or partly skimmed milk, from cream or from a mixture of these products;\n“total milk solids” means all the constituents of milk other than water, including milk fat, the constituents other than milk fat being present in their natural proportions; and\n“ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than–\n(a)for the purpose of resale;\n(b)for the purposes of a catering establishment; or\n(c)for the purposes of a manufacturing business.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (22.2.2008) by virtue of The Condensed Milk and Dried Milk (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/12), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (28.3.2019) by The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 6(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (28.3.2019) by virtue of The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 6(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 327, 24.12.79, p.29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 306, 28.10.87, p.24."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.571."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/311/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:57.215166+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."
}