{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-food-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-36",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2975",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-food-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "In regulation 2—\n(a) before the definition of “importer” insert—\n““food” has the meaning set out in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;”;\n(b) before the definition of “local weights and measures authority” insert—\n““labelling requirements” means the requirements set out in regulations 5(1)(a), 5(2), 6(1)(a), 6(1)(b), 6(2), 7, 8(1) and 8(3)(d);”;\n(c) before the definition of “Member State” insert—\n““mass caterer” means any establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall), such as restaurants, canteens, schools, hospitals and catering enterprises in which, in the course of a business, food is prepared to be ready for consumption by the final consumer;”;\n(d) in the definition of “nominal quantity”, after “or 6(2)” insert “or, in the case of pre-packed food, the net quantity as required under Regulation 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers”; and\n(e) before the definition of “reference test” insert—\n““pre-packed” means, in relation to food, any single item for presentation as such to the final consumer and to mass caterers, consisting of a food and the packaging into which it was put before being offered for sale, whether such packaging encloses the food completely or only partially, but in any event in such a way that the contents cannot be altered without opening or changing the packaging; ‘pre-packed food’ does not cover foods packed on the sales premises at the consumer’s request or pre-packed for direct sale;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2975/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:57:08.994578+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."
}