{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1987/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1987/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Confidentiality",
  "text": "No information obtained from any books or documents produced in accordance with regulation 12(b) shall, without the previous consent in writing of the person carrying on the trade or business in question, be disclosed except for the purpose of any proceedings for an offence against any of these Regulations or any report of those proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3145",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1376",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1523/regulation/16",
    "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."
}