{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-food-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/187",
  "legislation_title": "Medical Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-food-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Directive” means Commission Directive 1999/21/EC on dietary foods for special medical purposes as amended by—\nthe Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded;\nCommission Directive 2006/82/EC adapting Directive 91/321 on infant formulae and follow-on formulae and Directive 1999/21/EC on dietary foods for special medical purposes, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania; ...\nCommission Directive 2006/141 on infant formulae and follow-on formulae and amending Directive 1991/21/EC ; and Commission Directive No. 2013/26/EU adapting certain directives in the field of food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, by reason of the accession of Croatia, as amended by Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives 96/8/EC, 1999/21/EC, 2006/125/EC and 2006/141/EC, Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) No 41/2009 and (EC) No 953/2009; and, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/128 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the specific compositional and information requirements for food for special medical purposes.\n“medical food” means food coming within the classification of dietary foods for special medical purposes for which compositional and labelling requirements are laid down in the Directive and which has been developed to satisfy the nutritional requirements of infants; and\n“member State” means a member State of the European Community other than the United Kingdom;\n“the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991; and\n“sell” includes possess for sale and offer, expose or advertise (otherwise than by means of a label or wrapper) for sale.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations 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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (11.1.2008) by The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/506), regs. 1(2), 30(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (11.2.2019) by virtue of The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/5), regs. 1(1), 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (11.2.2019) by The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/5), regs. 1(1), 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (22.2.2019) by The Food Safety (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/9), regs. 1, 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/187/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:24.368401+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."
}