{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-control-of-irradiation-regulations-1990/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-control-of-irradiation-regulations-1990/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2490",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Control of Irradiation) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-control-of-irradiation-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition on treatment without licence",
  "text": "(1) No person shall in the preparation of any food for sale subject it or any part of it to treatment by ionising radiation unless—\n(a) he holds a current irradiation licence,\n(b) the food so subjected is food which he is authorised by that irradiation licence to subject to that treatment, and\n(c) that treatment is carried out in accordance with the conditions of that irradiation licence.\n(2) Each person who in the preparation of food for sale subjects it or any part of it to treatment by ionising radiation shall, on expiry of his irradiation licence, retain such records relating to that food as he is required by the licence to keep throughout its currency until five years have passed from the date of that treatment.\n(3) Schedule 1 below shall have effect in relation to the grant of irradiation licences by the licensing authority, the terms and conditions, variation, withdrawal, suspension and extension of those irradiation licences and publication and charges payable to the licensing authority relating to those matters and the specification of things done by the licensing authority in respect of which such charges are payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2490/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:55:19.736067+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."
}