{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-england-regulations-2004/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-england-regulations-2004/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2601",
  "legislation_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-england-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995",
  "text": "In regulation 11, after paragraph (1D), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(1E) In any proceedings for an offence in contravention of regulation 3(1) where it is alleged that a food additive failed to satisfy the purity criteria for that additive, it shall be a defence for the accused to show either—\n(a) that the food additive concerned is E431-E436, or polyethylene glycol 6000 and the food additive or food concerned was put on the market or labelled before 1st November 2004; or\n(b) that the food additive concerned is E407, E407a, E1517 or E1519 and the food additive or food concerned was put on the market or labelled before 1st April 2005;\nand that that matter constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made to them by regulation 3 of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2004 had not been in force when that matter occurred.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2601/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:17:37.018287+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."
}