{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/1396",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat Products (Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-wales-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), these Regulations apply to food which is ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer or to a catering establishment.\n(2) These Regulations shall not apply in respect of any food which is —\n(a) not intended for sale for human consumption; or\n(b) marked or labelled with a clear indication that the food is intended exclusively for consumption by babies or young children.\n(3) Regulation 4 (restrictions on the use of certain names) shall not apply in respect of any food which is —\n(a) brought into Wales from —\n(i) an EEA State (other than the United Kingdom), or\n(ii) another part of the United Kingdom,\nin which it was lawfully sold, having been lawfully produced in an EEA State; or\n(b) brought into Wales from —\n(i) a Member State (other than the United Kingdom), or\n(ii) another part of the United Kingdom,\nin which it was lawfully sold, having been lawfully produced in a Member State, or in which it was in free circulation and lawfully sold.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3) —\n“EEA State” (“Gwladwriaeth EEA”) means a State which is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“free circulation” (“cylchrediad rhydd”) has the same meaning as in Article 24 of the Treaty establishing the European Community;\n“Member State” (“Aelod-wladwriaeth”) means a State which is a member of the European Community.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.571."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1809",
      "affecting_title": "The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology or Numbering) Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1396/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:35.760370+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."
}