Paragraph 1 A. General provisions

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.3, para.4 amended by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2000 reg.13
Sch.3, para.7 amended by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2000 reg 13
Sch 3, paras 4, 7 am (W) by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2001 regs 2, 13
Sch.3, para.4 amended by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2000 reg.13
Sch.3, para.7 amended by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2000 reg 13
Sch 3, para 4 am (S) by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2002 regs 2, 18(a)
Sch 3, para 8 am (S) by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2002 regs 2, 18(b)
Sch 3, para 4 am (E) by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2002 regs 2, 18(a)
Sch 3, para 8 am (E) by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2002 regs 2, 18(b)
Sch 3, para 4 am (W) by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2002 regs 2, 18(a)
Sch 3, para 8 am (W) by Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food 2002 regs 2, 18(b)

When the results of the migration tests specified in this Schedule and, where appropriate, Schedule 4 are analytically determined the specific gravity of any simulants used shall be assumed to be 1, so that milligrams of any substance released per litre of simulant will correspond numerically to milligrams of that substance released per kilogram of that simulant.