{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1413",
  "legislation_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of “Directive 95/2/EC” there shall be inserted at the end the words “, as amended by European Parliament and Council Directive 96/85/EC”;\n(b) after that definition there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““Directive 96/77/EC” means Commission Directive 96/77/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners;”;\n(c) there shall be substituted for the definition of “purity criteria” the following definition—\n““purity criteria”, in relation to a miscellaneous additive, means—\n(a) in the case of a miscellaneous additive for which purity criteria are set out in the Annex to Directive 96/77/EC, those purity criteria;\n(b) in any other case, the purity criteria (if any) specified or referred to in Schedule 5;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L86, 28.3.97, p. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L339, 30.12.96, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1413/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:50.624470+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."
}