{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-feed-safety-and-hygiene-eu-exit-scotland-amendment-regulations-2019/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2019/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Food and Feed Safety and Hygiene (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-feed-safety-and-hygiene-eu-exit-scotland-amendment-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the General Food Regulations 2004",
  "text": "(1) The General Food Regulations 2004 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 4 (requirements under Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002: offences), paragraph (a), for “the Community” substitute “Great Britain”.\n(3) For regulation 6A (defence for exports) substitute—\n“(6A) In any proceedings for an offence of contravening or failing to comply with food law it is a defence for the accused to prove that the item in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed—\n(a) was intended for export to a third country; and\n(b) could lawfully be exported there under Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Food and Feed (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/372), regs. 1(2)(a), 5(2) (as amended by S.S.I. 2020/455, regs. 1(3), 5(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/3279, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/3254, S.S.I. 2005/616, S.I. 2005/2626, S.I. 2013/2996."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/52/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:02.690477+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."
}