{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-school-food-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-school-food-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1603",
  "legislation_title": "The Requirements for School Food Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-for-school-food-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Meat, fish, eggs, beans and other non-dairy sources of protein",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), products containing meat may not be provided more than once each week in primary schools and twice each week in secondary schools, and where they are provided they must be provided in accordance with this paragraph.\n(2) Any shaped product comprising a mixture of meat and other ingredients which is not included in the reserved descriptions specified in Schedule 1 to the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations may only be provided if it complies with the meat content requirements for “Burger” in that Schedule.\n(3) No product containing meat shall be provided if it contains any carcase part listed in regulation 5(2) of the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations , subject to the exception in regulation 5(3) of those Regulations.\n(4) No economy burgers as defined in Schedule 1 to the Products Containing Meat etc. Regulations may be provided.\n(5) In respect of boarding schools, products containing meat may not be provided more than twice each week as part of a school lunch, and where they are provided (whether as part of a school lunch or otherwise) they must be provided in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) to (4).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(1) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3001), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(2) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3001), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(3) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3001), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(c)(i) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(3) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3001), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(c)(ii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(3) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3001), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(c)(iii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(4) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3001), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(d) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 2(5) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3001), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(e) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 2 in force at 1.1.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:34.456624+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."
}