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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-food-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/432",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Food (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-food-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997",
  "text": "In the Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997–\n(a) in regulation 2(1), in the definition of “Regulation (EC) No. 258/97”, after “ingredients” insert “, as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on genetically modified food and feed”; and\n(b) in the Schedule, after item 6 insert–\n(i) in the first column “6A. Article 8.1”; and\n(ii) in the second column–\n“Requirement that labelling inform the final consumer of any characteristic or food property which renders a novel food or food ingredient no longer equivalent to an existing food or food ingredient.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 15.11.2004, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1335, amended by S.I. 1999/1756 and 3182 and S.S.I. 2000/62 and 83."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/432/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:26.651472+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."
}