{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-44.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties",
  "text": "(1) If any person—\n(a) sells any food which is not marked or labelled in accordance with the provisions of Part II of these Regulations, or\n(b) sells or advertises for sale any food in respect of which a claim is made, nutrition labelling is given or a description or a name is used in contravention of the provisions of Part III of these Regulations, or\n(c) sells any food from a vending machine in contravention of regulation 29, or\n(d) sells any food after the date shown in a “use by” date relating to it, or\n(e) being a person other than whichever of—\n(i) the manufacturer,\n(ii) the packer, or\n(iii) the seller established within the European Community,\nwas originally responsible for so marking the food, removes or alters the appropriate durability indication relating to that food,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(2) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed in Scotland by a Scottish partnership and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/768",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2000/1925",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "deleted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/83",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/747",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/83",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/768",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/747",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2000/1925",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Wales) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1499/regulation/44",
    "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."
}