{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-amendment-no-2-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2817",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-amendment-no-2-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:\n(a) in the definition of “the Directive” in regulation 2(1), for the words “as amended” there shall be substituted the words “, (as corrected) and as amended by Commission Directives 92/39/EEC, 93/9/EEC, 95/3/EC and 96/11/EC”;\n(b) in regulation 5 (monomers) —\n(i) in paragraph (1) —\n(A) after the words “the following paragraphs of this regulation” there shall be inserted the words “and regulation 14A”,\n(B) in sub-paragraph (a), for the date “1st January 1997” there shall be substituted the date “1st January 2002”, and\n(C) in sub-paragraph (b), for the date “31st December 1996” there shall be substituted the date “31st December 2001”;\n(ii) in paragraphs (3), (4), (5) and (6), after the words “the relevant fraction of”(wherever they occur) there shall be added the words “, or section F of,”;\n(c) after regulation 14 there shall be inserted the following regulation —\n“Manufacture until 1st January l999\n14A Notwithstanding regulation 5(1),until lst January 1999 a plastic material or article may be manufactured using one or more of the monomers identified by PM/REF No., CAS No. (if any) and name respectively in columns 1, 2, 3 of Section F of Part I of Schedule l, if any such monomer is of good technical quality and is used in accordance with the restrictions (if any) specified in the corresponding entry in column 4 thereof.”;\n(d) the Item number and letter, PM/REF No., CAS No. and name for each monomer identified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be inserted in Section A of Part 1 of Schedule 1 (monomers authorised without time limit) at the place corresponding to the number and letter specified for that monomer in the column headed “Item” in Schedule l to these Regulations;\n(e) the contents of Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall be substituted for Section B of Part 1 of Schedule 1;\n(f) in Section D of Part 1 of Schedule l (monomers authorised until 1st April 1996), in Item 16, for the figures “51” and “115” in column 4 (restrictions) there shall be substituted the figures “17” and “58” respectively;\n(g) the contents of Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall be inserted after Section E of Part 1 of Schedule 1; and\n(h) the Item number and letter, PM/REF No., CAS No. (if any) and name for each additive identified in Schedule 4 to these Regulations shall be inserted in Part I of Schedule 3 (additives) at the place corresponding to the number and letter specified for that additive in the column headed “Item” in Schedule 4 to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Corrigendum in OJ No. L349, 13.12.90, p.26; amending Directives in OJ No. L168, 23.6.92, p.21, OJ No. L90, 14.3.93, p.26, OJ No. L41, 23.2.95, p.44 and OJ No. L61, 12.3.96, p.26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2817/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:40.149381+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."
}