{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-general-food-hygiene-regulations-1995/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-general-food-hygiene-regulations-1995/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1763",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-general-food-hygiene-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Persons suffering from certain medical conditions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person working in a food handing area who—\n(a) knows or suspects that he is suffering form or that he is a carrier of a disease likely to be transmitted through food; or\n(b) is afflicted with an infected wound, a skin infection, sores, diarrhoea or with any analogous medical condition,\nin circumstances where there is any likelihood of him directly or indirectly contaminating any food with pathogenic micro-organisms, shall report that knowledge, suspicion or affliction to the proprietor of the food business at which he is working.\n(2) This regulation shall not apply to a person unless he is working in a food handling area in which a food business proprietor, seeking to comply with regulation 4(2)(d) and paragraph 2 of Chapter VIII of Schedule 1, may be required to refuse him permission to work.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1763/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:58.380575+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."
}