{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-food-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-food-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Restrictions on sale",
  "text": "(1) No person shall sell a medical food unless—\n(a) its formulation and composition comply with Article 3 of the Directive as read with the Annex thereto and its instructions for use are such that its use in accordance with those instructions would so comply;\n(b) the name under which it is sold complies with Article 4(1) of the Directive; and\n(c) it is labelled in accordance with Article 4(2) to (5) of the Directive.\n(2) No person who, in respect of medical food of a particular type—\n(a) is a designated notifier, that is to say a manufacturer or an importer covered by Article 5 of the Directive, but\n(b) has failed to comply with the requirement to notify the competent authority referred to in that Article,\nshall sell a medical food of that type.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) the competent authority is the Food Standards Agency.",
  "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/187/regulation/3",
    "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."
}