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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/38",
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  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Intelligibility",
  "text": "(1) The particulars with which a food is required to be marked or labelled by these Regulations, or which appear on a menu, notice, ticket or label pursuant to these Regulations, shall be easy to understand, clearly legible and indelible and, when a food is sold to the ultimate consumer, the said particulars shall be marked in a conspicuous place in such a way as to be easily visible.\n(2) Such particulars shall not in any way be hidden, obscured or interrupted by any other written or pictorial matter.\n(3) Paragraph (1) of this regulation shall not be taken to preclude the giving of such particulars at a catering establishment, in respect of foods the variety and type of which are changed regularly, by means of temporary media (including the use of chalk on a blackboard).",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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