{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3255",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-england-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part of these Regulations",
  "text": "In this Part of these Regulations —\n“authorised officer”, in relation to an enforcement authority, means any person (whether or not an officer of the authority) who is authorised by them in writing, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under the Import Provisions;\n“the Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;\n“enforcement authority” means the feed authority or the food authority;\n“feed” does not include additives of a type mentioned in Article 6(1)(e) of or paragraph 4(d) of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on additives for use in animal nutrition or any premixture consisting solely of a combination of such additives;\n“outside England enforcement authority” means the body responsible for enforcing the legislation in force with respect to imported products in any part of the United Kingdom except England;\n“product” means feed and food of non-animal origin whose import is regulated by Article 44 or Article 47(1)(d), (e) or (f) of Regulation 2017/625 and includes composite products and foodstuffs which are not listed in Decision 2007/275/EC;\n...\n“specified import provision” means any provision of Regulation 2017/625 or the Regulation 2017/625 package that is specified in column 1 of Schedule 6 and whose subject-matter is described in column 2 of that Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "OJ No. L268, 18.10.2003, p.29, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22 substituted (5.8.2020) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/738), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22 substituted (25.12.2020) by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1410), regs. 1(2), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 3(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1476), regs. 1, 12(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3255/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:58:56.267706+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."
}