{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 4 (use of miscellaneous additives in or on compound foods) there shall be substituted for paragraph (1) the following paragraph—\n“(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, where a permitted miscellaneous additive is present in or on a compound food and that compound food contains, as an ingredient, a food in or on which that miscellaneous additive was or could have been used without contravening any of the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (5) or (7) of regulation 3, that miscellaneous additive shall for the purposes of those paragraphs be deemed to have been used in or on that compound food without contravening any of the provisions of those paragraphs.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1413/regulation/4",
    "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."
}