Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

• “candy sugar” means crystalline sugar with crystals having any dimension greater than one centimetre;

• “catering establishment” means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;

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• “food authority” does not include—

  1. (a)

     the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change, or

  2. (b)

     the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple);

• “icing sugar” means fine particles of white sugar or extra-white sugar or mixtures thereof;

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• “preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment and “prepared” shall be construed accordingly;

• “reserved description”, as respects any specified sugar product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1 (as read with the notes relating to that Schedule) and the use of any such description in these Regulations shall be construed as meaning the product to which that description relates;

• “sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

• “specified sugar product” means any food specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 (as read with the Notes relating to that Schedule) but does not include any such food in the form of icing sugar, candy sugar or sugar in loaf form;

• “sugar in loaf form” means a piece of agglomerated crystalline sugar, usually conically shaped, weighing not less than 250 grammes; and

• “ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than—

  1. (a)

     for the purpose of resale,

  2. (b)

     for the purposes of a catering establishment, or

  3. (c)

     for the purposes of a manufacturing business.