{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/127",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Application of provisions of the Act",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act apply for the purposes of these Regulations as they apply for the purposes of the Act–\n(a) section 3 (presumptions that food intended for human consumption);\n(b) section 20 (offences due to fault of another person);\n(c) section 30(8) (relating to documentary evidence);\n(d) section 36 (offences by bodies corporate);\n(e) section 36A (offences by Scottish Partnerships); and\n(f) section 44 (protection of officers acting in good faith).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 1.5.2008, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 36A was inserted by secion 40 of, and Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (c.28)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/127",
      "affecting_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/127/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:29:56.724089+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."
}