{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1523",
  "legislation_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, extent and revocations",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 2nd October 1987.\n(2) These Regulations shall not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(3) The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1978, the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations 1980 and the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations 1982 are hereby revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1927."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1838."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1701."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1523/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:20:57.169482+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."
}