{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-promotion-and-placement-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-promotion-and-placement-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/303",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Promotion and Placement) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-promotion-and-placement-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Restriction on the volume price promotion of specified food",
  "text": "(1) A qualifying person must not offer specified food for sale as part of a volume price promotion—\n(a) in store, or\n(b) on an online marketplace.\n(2) In this regulation “volume price promotion” means—\n(a) a multibuy promotion, being the express offer of a financial incentive for buying multiple items compared with buying each item separately (including “3 for the price of 2”, “3 for £10”, or “buy six and save 25%”),\n(b) a promotion that indicates that an item, or any part of an item, is free (including “50% extra free”, or “buy one get one free”).\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), a multibuy promotion does not include a relevant special offer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/303/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:33:44.952873+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."
}