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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-live-bivalve-molluscs-derogations-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1508",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs) (Derogations) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-live-bivalve-molluscs-derogations-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“bivalve molluscs” means filter-feeding lamellibranch molluscs;\n“the Commission Decision” means Commission Decision 92/92/EEC, of 9th January 1992, laying down the requirements relating to equipment and structure of dispatch and purification centres for live bivalve molluscs, for which derogations may be granted pursuant to Articles 5 and 12 of the Council Directive;\n“conditioning” means storage in tanks or any other installation containing clean seawater or in natural sites to remove sand, mud or slime;\n“the Council Directive” means Council Directive 91/492/EEC, of 15th July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs;\n“derogation” means the grant of a further period within which to comply fully with the conditions for the approval of dispatch centres and purification centres set out in Chapter IV of the Annex to the Council Directive, which conditions are set out in column (1) to the Schedule to these Regulations;\n“dispatch centre” means any on-shore or off-shore installation for the reception, conditioning, washing, cleaning, grading or wrapping of live bivalve molluscs for human consumption;\n“food authority” means an authority specified in regulation 6 as an authority which is to enforce and execute these Regulations;\n“purification centre” means an establishment with tanks fed by naturally clean seawater or sea water that has been cleaned by appropriate treatment, in which live bivalve molluscs are placed for the time necessary to remove microbiological contamination, so making them fit for human consumption;\n“relevant requirement” means, subject to paragraph (2), a condition set out in column (1) of the Schedule to these Regulations in respect of which there is an entry in column (2) of that Schedule which indicates that it is a condition in respect of which, in accordance with the Commission Decision, a derogation may be made.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations where there is in relation to a relevant requirement a limitation mentioned in column (2) of the Schedule, that requirement is a relevant requirement only to the extent indicated by that limitation.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n(a) a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation in these Regulations which bears that number;\n(b) a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation which bears that number.\n(4) In the Schedule to these Regulations—\n(a) a reference to the Annex is a reference to the Annex to the Council Directive;\n(b) a reference to a numbered Chapter is a reference to the Chapter which bears that number in the Annex;\n(c) a reference in a Chapter to a numbered section or point is a reference to the section or point which bears that number in that Chapter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 34/34, 11.2.92."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 268, 24.9.1991, p.1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1763",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1508/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:20:47.049772+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."
}