{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quick-frozen-foodstuffs-regulations-1990/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quick-frozen-foodstuffs-regulations-1990/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2615",
  "legislation_title": "The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quick-frozen-foodstuffs-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Packaging of quick-frozen foodstuffs intended for supply to the ultimate consumer",
  "text": "No person shall place on the market any quick-frozen foodstuff intended for the ultimate consumer unless—\n(a) it has been packed by its manufacturer or packer in such prepackaging as is suitable to protect it from microbial and other forms of external contamination and against dehydration, and\n(b) the quick-frozen foodstuff has remained in such prepackaging up to the time of placing on the market.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (1.3.2007) by The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/191), regs. 1(b), 11 and revoked (W.) (1.3.2007) by The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/389), regs. 1(2), 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 substituted (S.) (16.3.2007) by The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/106), regs. 1(1), 2(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(b) substituted (S.) (16.3.2007) by The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/106), regs. 1(1), 2(b)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 10.1.1991, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2615/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:54:01.693619+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."
}