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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-for-specific-groups-information-and-compositional-requirements-england-amendment-regulations-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-for-specific-groups-information-and-compositional-requirements-england-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) Regulations 2016 (“the 2016 Regulations”), which make provision to enforce, in England, the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provisions of food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control, and also insert an alternative improvement notice enforcement regime alongside existing domestic criminal sanctions into various Regulations.\nThe 2016 Regulations provide for the enforcement of requirements specified by Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 by applying, with modifications, certain provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (1990 c.16), to the 2016 Regulations.\nThese Regulations make minor amendments to correct typographical errors in the 2016 Regulations, and to correctly apply a modified s.35 of the Food Safety Act 1990.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/62/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:16:03.868447+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."
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