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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infant-formula-and-follow-on-formula-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infant-formula-and-follow-on-formula-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Medical Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "text": "(1) The Medical Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) The following regulation is inserted immediately after regulation 7 (application of various provisions of the Order)—\n“Transitional arrangements\n8 In respect of any contravention before 1st January 2010, a person does not commit an offence under regulation 5(a) consisting of a contravention of regulation 3(1)(a) where the action that would otherwise constitute the offence consists of selling a medical food whose composition fails to comply with Article 3 of the Directive as read with the row relating to manganese set out in the second part of Table I (minerals) in the Annex to the Directive if the composition of that medical food would have complied with Article 3 of the Directive as read with the row relating to manganese set out in the second part of Table I (minerals) in the Annex to the Directive as it stood before it was amended by Commission Directive 2006/141/EC on infant formulae and follow-on formulae and amending Directive 1999/21/EC.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 revoked (22.2.2020) by The Food Safety (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/16), reg. 1, Sch. 2 reg. 7 (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 4.11.2008, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 187; the relevant amending instrument is S.R. 2007 No. 506"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/405/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:36.420449+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."
}