{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-scotland-regulations-2002/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-scotland-regulations-2002/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/524",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-scotland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
  "text": "In regulation 50 (transitional provision) there shall be inserted at the end–\n“(10) In any proceedings for an offence under regulation 44 (1)(a), it shall be a defence to prove that–\n(a) the food concerned was sold before 1st July 2003 or marked or labelled before that date; and\n(b) the matters constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made by regulations 3 and 5 of the Food Labelling Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002 had not been in force when the food was sold, marked or labelled.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/524/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:08.880071+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."
}