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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-26",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Small packages and certain indelibly marked bottles",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, any prepacked food, either contained in an indelibly marked glass bottle intended for re-use and having no label, ring or collar, or the largest surface of whose packaging has an area of less than ten square centimetres, need not by virtue of these Regulations be marked or labelled with any of the particulars specified in regulation 5 except the name of the food and, unless the food is not required to be marked or labelled with such an indication, the appropriate durability indication.\n(2) Any bottle referred to in paragraph (1) of this regulation which contains milk shall also be marked or labelled with the particulars required by regulation 5(f) (where the appropriate circumstances described in that regulation apply) and, if such milk is raw milk, with the particulars required by regulation 5(e)(i).\n(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5) of this regulation, any prepacked food which—\n(a) is sold or supplied as an individual portion, and\n(b) is intended as a minor accompaniment to either—\n(i) another food, or\n(ii) another service,\nneed not be marked or labelled with any of the particulars specified in regulation 5 except the name of the food nor, where but for this regulation they would otherwise be required, with any of the particulars specified in regulations 32, 33 and 34. Such prepacked food shall include butter and other fat spreads, milk, cream and cheeses, jams and marmalades, mustards, sauces, tea, coffee and sugar, and such other service shall include the provision of sleeping accommodation at an hotel or other establishment at which such accommodation is provided by way of trade or business.\n(4) This regulation does not apply to any food to which regulation 23 or 27 applies.\n(5) Any bottle referred to in paragraph (1) of this regulation need not—\n(a) where it contains milk, or\n(b) where it contains any other food, in which case until 1st January 1997,\nbe marked or labelled with an appropriate durability indication.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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