{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/723",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2004.\n(2) Regulations 1 and 2 shall come into force on 6th April 2004 and regulations 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on 1st October 2004.\n(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Food Regulations 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1434, as amended by the Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003, S.I. 2003/1864, the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2003, S.I. 2003/702 and the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2002, S.I. 2002/550. Previous amending instruments were revoked by regulation 3 of S.I. 2002/550."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/723/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:29:44.557235+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."
}