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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-supplements-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/273",
  "legislation_title": "Food Supplements Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-supplements-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope of Regulations",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations apply to food supplements sold as food and presented as such.\n(2) These Regulations do not apply to medicinal products as defined by Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 1.8.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L311, 28.11.2001, p. 67"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/273",
      "affecting_title": "Food Supplements Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2009/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Supplements and the Addition of Vitamins, Minerals and Other Substances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/273/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:33.838347+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."
}