{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-lot-marking-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions for particular types of sale and sales units",
  "text": "Regulation 3 shall not apply to the following—\n(a) a sale of an agricultural product which, on leaving the holding of its production—\n(i) is sold or delivered to a temporary storage, preparation or packaging station, or to a producer’s organisation; or\n(ii) is collected for immediate integration into an operational preparation or processing system;\n(b) a sale to the ultimate consumer of food where the food is not prepacked, is packed at the request of the purchaser or is prepacked for immediate sale;\n(c) a sales unit of food which is in a container the area of the largest side of which is less than 10 square centimetres;\n(d) a sales unit of food which is prepacked, sold as an individual portion for immediate consumption and which is intended as a minor accompaniment to either another food or another service;\n(e) a sales unit of an individual portion of an edible ice supplied to its seller in bulk packaging containing more than one such portion and bearing the lot marking indication which that portion would, but for this paragraph, have been required to bear;\n(f) a sale after these Regulations come into force—\n(i) of a sales unit marked or labelled before 22nd July 1992; or\n(ii) of a sales unit before 1st January 1997 in a glass bottle intended for re-use which is indelibly marked and therefore bears no label, ring or collar; and\n(g) a sales unit of food which is marked or labelled with an indication of minimum durability or “use by” date which consists at least of the uncoded indication of the day and month in that order, whether or not the Food Labelling Regulations require it to be so marked or labelled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/384/regulation/4",
    "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."
}