{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-sugar-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-sugar-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/301",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Sugar Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-sugar-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations –\n“the 1996 Regulations” means the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\n“candy sugar” means crystalline sugar with crystals having any dimension greater than one centimetre;\n“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;\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;\n“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;\n“icing sugar” means fine particles of white sugar or extra-white sugar or mixtures thereof;\n“the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n“preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment;\n“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;\n“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale;\n“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;\n“sugar in loaf form” means a piece of agglomerated crystalline sugar, usually conically shaped, weighing not less than 250 grammes; and\n“ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than –\n(a) for the purpose of resale,\n(b) for the purposes of a catering establishment, or\n(c) for the purposes of a manufacturing business.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 21.7.2003, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 383; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1998 No. 253,"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L1, 3.1.94, p. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L1, 3.1.94, p. 571"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2019/5",
      "affecting_title": "The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/223",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/301",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Sugar Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/301/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:20.266131+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."
}