{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/50",
  "legislation_title": "Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Use of miscellaneous additives in or on compound foods",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), any food in or on which a permitted miscellaneous additive is used without contravening any of the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (5) or (7) of regulation 3 may itself be used as an ingredient in a compound food in or on which the use of such miscellaneous additive is not otherwise permitted; and the presence in or on that compound food of such miscellaneous additive as a result of its containing such an ingredient shall not constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of those paragraphs of regulation 3.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4), there may be used in or on a food any permitted miscellaneous additive the use of which would otherwise constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (5) or (7) of regulation 3, where such a food is destined to be used solely in the preparation of a compound food and the resulting presence in or on that compound food of such miscellaneous additive does not itself constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of those paragraphs of regulation 3.\n(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of any compound food listed in Schedule 6 or in column 1 of Schedule 7.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply in the case of any food for infants or young children as referred to in Directive 89/398/EEC, except where specifically provided in these Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 22.4.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/50",
      "affecting_title": "Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/340",
      "affecting_title": "Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/50/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:37:42.459637+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."
}