{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-29.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Food sold from vending machines",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, where any food is sold from a vending machine, without prejudice to any other labelling requirements imposed by these Regulations, there shall appear on the front of the machine a notice indicating the name of the food (unless that name appears on the labelling of the food in such a manner as to be easily visible and clearly legible to an intending purchaser through the outside of the machine), together with—\n(a) in the event that such food is not prepacked, and there is made in respect of it (whether on the machine or elsewhere) a claim of a type described in Part II of Schedule 6, a notice giving the prescribed nutrition labelling described in paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 7;\n(b) in the event that such food is one which should properly be reheated before it is eaten, but suitable instructions for such reheating are not given on the packaging (if any) of the food, a notice giving such instructions.\n(2) A notice required under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) of this regulation shall appear either—\n(a) on the front of the vending machine, or\n(b) in close proximity to the machine and in such a way as to be readily discernible by an intending purchaser.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1499/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:11.542130+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."
}