{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1502",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Lot Marking) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Lot marking requirement",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the exceptions specified in regulation 4 below, no person shall sell any food which forms part of a lot unless it is accompanied by a lot marking indication.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) a lot shall be determined as a lot to which food in the sales unit belongs by a producer, manufacturer, packager, or the first seller established within the United Kingdom, of the food in question; and\n(b) a lot marking indication—\n(i) shall be determined and affixed under the responsibility of one or other of those operators; and\n(ii) shall be preceded by the letter “L”, except in cases where that lot marking indication is clearly distinguishable from the other indications on the packaging of the food or on a label attached to its packaging.\n(3) A lot marking indication—\n(a) for prepacked food shall appear on, or on a label attached to, the packaging of the food; and\n(b) for food which is not prepacked shall appear on the container of the food or on a commercial document which accompanies the food, and\nshall in all cases appear in such a way as to be easily visible, clearly legible and indelible.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6, 8-10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(a) substituted: (E.) (31.12.2020) by The Food (Amendment) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/150), regs. 1, 2(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1); (W.) (31.12.2020) by The Food Standards and Labelling (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/435), regs. 1(3), 2(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1); and (S.) (31.12.2020) by The Food Composition, Labelling and Standards (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/53), regs. 1(1), 3(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.7.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1502/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:08.914901+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."
}