{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Name prescribed by law",
  "text": "(1) If there is a name prescribed by law for a food, that is to say if a particular name is required to be used for the food, that name shall be used as the name of the food.\n(2) The name used for food specified in Schedule 1 shall be the name required by that Schedule.\n(3) A name that is required to be used for a food by paragraph (1) or (2) of this regulation may be qualified by other words which make it more precise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1499/regulation/6",
    "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."
}