{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-6A.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-information-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/6A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": "Foods that are prepacked for direct sale – general requirement to name them",
  "text": "(1) A food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies must provide the particulars required by Article 9(1)(a) (the name of the food) as read with—\n(a) Article 17(1) to (4),\n(b) Part A of Annex VI; and\n(c) in the case of food offered for sale using a minced meat designation as a name –\n(i) Article 17(5),\n(ii) and point 1 of Part B of Annex VI, and\n(iii) point 3 of Part B of Annex VI as read with regulation 4 and Schedule 2.\n(2) This regulation applies to a food that—\n(a) is offered for sale to a final consumer or to a mass caterer; and\n(b) is prepacked for direct sale.\n(3) The particulars in paragraph (1) must be provided directly on the package or a label attached to the package, except in the case of an offer for sale made by means of distance communication.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6A inserted (1.10.2021) by The Food Information (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/80), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/223/regulation/6A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:05:47.332656+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."
}