{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/security-of-pathogens-and-toxins-exceptions-to-dangerous-substances-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1281",
  "legislation_title": "The Security of Pathogens and Toxins (Exceptions to Dangerous Substances) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/security-of-pathogens-and-toxins-exceptions-to-dangerous-substances-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where the condition set out in paragraph (2) is satisfied, a pathogen which would otherwise fall within section 58(4)(b) of the Act is not to be regarded as a dangerous substance.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), that condition is that the substance for the time being mentioned in Schedule 5 to the Act infects or is otherwise carried by:\n(a) any animal, alive or dead, or anything which is or was a part of it;\n(b) any human corpse, or any part of it;\n(c) any food or food source within the meaning of the Food Safety Act 1990; or\n(d) any feeding stuff.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply if the occupier of the premises where any of the things set out in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of that paragraph is kept:\n(a) knows or ought reasonably to have known that the thing in question had been deliberately infected by a pathogen or that it otherwise carries a pathogen as a result of a deliberate act, and\n(b) keeps the thing in question for longer than is reasonably necessary for its disposal.\n(4) In paragraph (2)(d) “feeding stuff” means—\n(a) a product of vegetable or animal origin in its natural state (whether fresh or preserved);\n(b) a product derived from the industrial processing of such a product; or\n(c) an organic or inorganic substance, used simply or in a mixture,\nwhether or not containing additives, for oral feeding to animals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16; “food” and “food source” are defined by section 1 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1281/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:57:50.302450+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."
}