{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spreadable-fats-marketing-standards-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3116",
  "legislation_title": "The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spreadable-fats-marketing-standards-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“Community provision” means a provision of the Council Regulation which is referred to in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, as read with any qualifying words relating to that provision in that column;\n“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 2991/94 laying down standards for spreadable fats;\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“food authority” does not include—\n(a) the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county in England except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change;\n(b) until 1st April 1996, the council of a district in Wales, or\n(c) the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple);\n“member State” means a member State of the European Community;\n“sell” includes possess for sale, and offer, expose or advertise for sale, and “sale” and “sold” shall be construed accordingly;\n“sell by retail” means sell to a person buying otherwise than for the purpose of re-sale and “sold by retail” shall be construed accordingly;\n“vitamin A” means vitamin A present as such or as its esters and includes beta-carotene on the basis that 6 micrograms of beta-carotene or 12 micrograms of other biologically active carotenoids equal 1 microgram of retinol equivalent;\n“vitamin D” means the anti-rachitic vitamins.\n(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations have, in so far as the context admits, the same meaning as in the Council Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L316, 9.12.94, p.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.571."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/452",
      "affecting_title": "The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/452",
      "affecting_title": "The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/452",
      "affecting_title": "The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2538",
      "affecting_title": "The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/540",
      "affecting_title": "The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3116/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:00.345436+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."
}