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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-scotland-regulations-2006/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-hygiene-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Reheating of food",
  "text": "(1) Food which in the course of a commercial operation has been heated and which is thereafter reheated before being served for immediate consumption or exposed for sale shall, on being reheated, be raised to a temperature of not less than 82°C.\n(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub paragraph (1) is guilty of an offence.\n(3) In any proceedings for an offence under sub paragraph (2), it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that the food could not have been raised to a temperature of not less than 82°C without a deterioration of its qualities.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/3/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:05.380826+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."
}