{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-amendment-england-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-amendment-england-regulations-2000/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3162",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-amendment-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of Regulations",
  "text": "For paragraph (4)(a) of regulation 3 (restriction on the use, sale or importation of plastic materials and articles) there shall be substituted—\n“(a) if—\n(i) it has been manufactured with a prohibited monomer as described in regulation 4(1);\n(ii) it has been manufactured with a prohibited additive as described in regulation 5(1);\n(iii) being a product obtained by bacterial fermentation, it does not comply with regulation 5A; or\n(iv) it does not comply with regulation 4(5), 5(4) or 7,\nand no defence indicated in regulation 4(7), 5(2) or 7(5) would be available in proceedings for an offence under these Regulations relating to that manufacture or want of compliance; or”;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3162/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:58.074441+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."
}