{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Defence in relation to exports",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove—\n(a) that the food in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that it complies with that legislation; and\n(b) that the legislation complies with the provisions of Council Directive 79/112/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs, as amended, in the case of export to an EEA State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L33, 8.2.79, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Act concerning the Conditions of Accession and Adjustment to the Treaties—Accession to the European Communities of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic (OJ No. L302, 15.11.85, p.218), Council Directive 85/7/EEC (OJ No. L2, 3.1.85, p.22), Council Directive 86/197/EEC (OJ No. L144, 29.5.86, p.38), Council Directive 89/395/EEC (OJ No. L186, 30.6.89, p.17), Commission Directive 91/72/EEC (OJ No. L42, 15.2.91, p.27), Commission Directive 93/102/EEC (OJ No. L291, 25.11.93, p.14), as read with the EEA Agreement (OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.1)."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "uksi/2000/768",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2000/1925",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/83",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/309",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Irradiation Provisions (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2254",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Irradiation Provisions (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
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      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/747",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/1232",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Irradiation Provisions (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/768",
      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2004/249",
      "affecting_title": "The Food (Provisions relating to Labelling) (Wales) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2647",
      "affecting_title": "The Food (Provisions relating to Labelling) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/578",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2005"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1499/regulation/47",
    "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."
}