{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contaminants-in-food-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contaminants-in-food-regulations-1997/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Contaminants in Food Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contaminants-in-food-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Defence in relation to exports",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under regulation 3 it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove—\n(a) that the food specified in Annex 1 to the Commission Regulation in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that it complies with that legislation; and\n(b) in the case of intended export to an EEA State which is not a member State, that the legislation complies with the Commission Regulation where there is a decision by the EEA Joint Committee under Article 98 of the EEA Agreement to amend it to refer to the Commission Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1499/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:09.855020+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."
}