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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1998/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1376",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998",
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  "path": "regulation/11",
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  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Presumption as to food with which a plastic material or article is to come into contact",
  "text": "In establishing which descriptions of food a plastic material or article may come into contact with it shall be assumed for the purposes of these Regulations, until the contrary is proved, that, if particulars are shown in relation to that plastic material or article in accordance with the 1987 Regulations, those particulars are accurate and that, unless the particulars so indicate, there are no restrictions on the intended conditions of contact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/898",
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      "affecting_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2005"
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2005"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002"
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      "affecting": "wsi/2002/2834",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1376/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:28:07.252534+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."
}