{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1401",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Special provisions relating to overall migration",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any method of analytical determination may be used to prove excess of an overall migration limit in relation to a plastic material or article.\n(2) In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations where it is alleged that a plastic material or article does not comply with regulation 9 it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that—\n(a) if an aqueous simulant specified in Schedule 6 had been used, and the analytical determination of the total quantity of substances released by a sample of the plastic material or article tested had been carried out by evaporation of the simulant and weighing of the residue; or\n(b) if rectified olive oil or any of its substitutes had been used as a simulant and—\n(i) a sample of the plastic material or article had been weighed before and after contact with the simulant;\n(ii) the simulant absorbed by the sample had been extracted and determined quantitatively;\n(iii) the quantity of simulant so found had been subtracted from the weight of the sample measured after contact with the simulant; and\n(iv) the difference between the initial and corrected final weights had been determined to represent the overall migration of the sample examined,\nthere would have been no such excess so determined.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1401/schedule/5/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:28:33.333266+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."
}