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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/honey-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Honey (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/honey-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“bulk containers” has the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Honey Directive;\n“FIC” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 ;\n“food authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 ”;\n“Honey Directive” means Council Directive 2001/110/EC relating to honey ;\n“ingredient” has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(f) of FIC, as read with Article 2(5) of the Honey Directive;\n“in trade” has the same meaning as in the Honey Directive and “trade in” and “trading in” are to be construed accordingly;\n“trading bloc” means a group of nations united by trade agreements,\n“labelling” has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(j) of FIC;\n“packs” has the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Honey Directive;\n“trade documents” has the same meaning as in Article 3 of the Honey Directive; and\n“specific quality criteria” has the same meaning as in the third indented paragraph of paragraph (b) of the second sub-paragraph of point 2 of Article 2 of the Honey Directive.\n(2) Any other expression used in these Regulations has the same meaning as in the Honey Directive.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Food Information, Labelling and Standards (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/285), regs. 1(1), 5(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
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      "label": "M1",
      "text": "OJ No L 304, 22.11.2011, p.18, last amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 78/2014 (OJ No L 27, 30.1.2014, p.7)."
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    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1994 c.39."
    },
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      "label": "M3",
      "text": "OJ No L 10, 12.1.2002, p.47, last amended by Directive 2014/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No 164, 3.6.2014, p.1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/208/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:29:12.012571+00:00"
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  "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."
}