{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-and-novel-foods-labelling-england-regulations-2000/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-and-novel-foods-labelling-england-regulations-2000/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/768",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-and-novel-foods-labelling-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Defence in relation to exports",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove–\n(a) that the food in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that it complies with that legislation; and\n(b) in the case of export to a member State of food to which Regulation 1139/98 or Regulation 50/2000 applies, that the legislation complies with the provisions of Regulation 1139/98 or Regulation 50/2000, as appropriate, as read with Directive 79/112.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2647",
      "affecting_title": "The Food (Provisions relating to Labelling) (England) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/768/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:31.869112+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."
}