{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/honey-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/honey-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1507",
  "legislation_title": "The Honey (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/honey-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions: withdrawal from the EU",
  "text": "(1) An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a failure to comply with regulation 17(1) if—\n(a) the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market before IP completion day; and\n(b) the matter constituting the alleged contravention would not have constituted an offence under regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day.\n(2) An authorised officer of a food authority must not serve on a person an improvement notice relating to a failure to comply with regulation 17(1) if—\n(a) the improvement notice would relate to a product that was placed on the market before 1 January 2024;\n(b) the product bears one of the indications provided for in regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day;\n(c) had the product been placed on the market immediately before IP completion day, the use of the indication would not have constituted a contravention of regulation 17(1) as that provision had effect immediately before IP completion day; and\n(d) the indication is accurate in identifying the EU, non-EU or EU and non-EU origins, as the case may be, of the honeys in the product.\n(3) In this regulation, “improvement notice” means an improvement notice pursuant to regulation 19.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 inserted (14.4.2021) by The Food, Animal Feed and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/371), regs. 1(2), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(2)(a) substituted (30.9.2022) by The Food Information (Amendment of Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/939), regs. 1(2), 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1507/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:43.150520+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."
}