{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Defence in relation to exports",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove—\n(a) that the food or, as the case may be, the food additive in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that such food or food additive complies with that legislation; and\n(b) in the case of export to another member State, that the legislation complies with Directive 89/107/EEC and Directive 95/2/EC.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/340",
      "affecting_title": "Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/574",
      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/50/regulation/8",
    "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."
}