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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-38",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/383",
  "legislation_title": "Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "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) 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/143",
      "affecting_title": "Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/189",
      "affecting_title": "Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/45",
      "affecting_title": "Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "nisr/2007/420",
      "affecting_title": "The Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/383",
      "affecting_title": "Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/313",
      "affecting_title": "Cocoa and Chocolate Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/305",
      "affecting_title": "Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/301",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Sugar Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/300",
      "affecting_title": "Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "nisr/2013/253",
      "affecting_title": "The Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/519",
      "affecting_title": "Jam and Similar Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/383/regulation/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:05.075401+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."
}