{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/384",
  "legislation_title": "Food (Lot Marking) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“first seller established within the Community” has the same meaning as in Council Directive 89/396/EEC;\n“food” means food, intended for sale for human consumption;\n“the Food Labelling Regulations” means the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\n“lot” means a batch of sales units of food produced, manufactured or packaged under similar conditions;\n“lot marking indication” means an indication which allows identification of the lot to which a sales unit of food belongs;\n“the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n“prepacked for immediate sale” has the same meaning as “prepacked for direct sale” in the Food Labelling Regulations;\n“sell” includes offer or expose for sale and have in possession for sale.\n(2) Other expressions which are also used in the Food Labelling Regulations shall have the same meaning as in those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L186, 30.6.89, p. 21, as amended by Council Directives 91/238/EEC (O.J. No. L107, 27.4.91, p. 50) and 92/11/EEC (O.J. No. L65, 11.3.92, p. 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 383"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2019/5",
      "affecting_title": "The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/223",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 2(1)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/223",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/384/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:04.129408+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."
}