{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1992/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1992/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3145",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Method of testing capability of transferring constituents",
  "text": "(1) Plastic material, for the purposes of these Regulations, shall be treated as being capable of transferring constituents to food with which it may come into contact to the extent that it is established for those purposes—\n(a) in any case other than one to which sub-paragraph (b) below relates, by the verification methods specified in Schedule 2, and\n(b) in any case where the extent to which vinyl chloride, as identified in Section A of Part I of Schedule 1, is capable of such transfer falls to be established, by the method referred to in regulation 14(2) of the 1987 Regulations.\n(2) In Schedule 2 refences to migration or release of a substance shall be construed as references to the transfer of constituents to the simulant representing the food or, as the case may be, food with which it may come into contact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/360",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3145/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:09:17.501704+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."
}