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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-information-and-compositional-requirements-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/251",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (Information and Compositional Requirements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision to enforce Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the provisions of food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives 96/8/EC, 1999/21/EC, 2006/125/EC and 2006/141/EC, Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) No 41/2009 and (EC) No 953/2009.\nThese Regulations implement the framework of Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and introduce an improvement notice enforcement regime.\nRegulation 3 provides for the enforcement of these Regulations by each district council within its district.\nRegulation 4 creates an offence and penalty for breach of Article 9(2) of Regulation (EU) No 609/2013\nRegulation 5 and Schedule 2 apply certain provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991 N.I.7) with modifications. This includes the application (with modifications) of Article 9(1), enabling an improvement notice to be served requiring compliance with a specified EU requirement. The provisions, as applied and modified, make the failure to comply with an improvement notice a criminal offence.\nRegulation 6 and Schedule 3 amends statutory rules to take account of the repeal and replacement of relevant EU legislation\nRegulation 7 revokes the Notification of Marketing of Food for Particular Nutritional Uses Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 60), the Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010 No. 33), and regulations 26 and 27 of the Infant Formula and Follow on Formula Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 506).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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