The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2010

Made: 6th September 2010

Laid before Parliament: 10th September 2010

Coming into force: 20th October 2010

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PART 1 — Preliminary

Title, application and commencement

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Interpretation

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Scope

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PART 2 — General Requirements for Materials and Articles

Offences of contravening specified provisions of Regulation 1935/2004

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Offence of contravening Article 4 of Regulation 2023/2006

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Offences of contravening specified provisions of Regulation 450/2009

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Competent authorities

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PART 3 — Requirements for Vinyl Chloride

Limits and migration limits

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Methods of Analysis

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PART 4 — Requirements for Regenerated Cellulose Film

Controls and limits

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Migration limits for regenerated cellulose film coated with plastics

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Saving provision and transitional defence

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PART 5 — General

Offences and penalties

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Enforcement

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Offences by corporate bodies or Scottish partnerships

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Offences due to the act or default of a third party

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Time limit for prosecutions

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General defences

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Procedure where a sample is to be analysed

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Secondary analysis by the Government Chemist

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Application of various provisions of the Act

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Consequential amendment to the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990

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Consequential amendment to the 2009 Regulations

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Amendment to the Food Labelling Regulations 1996

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Revocation

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Anne Milton — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — 6th September 2010

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c.16. Section 1(1) and (2) (definition of “food”) was substituted by S.I. 2004/2990. Sections 17 and 48 were amended by paragraphs 12 and 21 respectively of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c.28), “the 1999Act”. Section 48 was also amended by S.I. 2004/2990. Section 26(3) was amended by Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act. Section 53(2) was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 16 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (1994 c.40), Schedule 6 to the 1999 Act, S.I. 2004/2990 and S.I. 2004/3279.

[^f00002]: Functions formerly exercisable by “the Ministers” (being, in relation to England and Wales and acting jointly, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and food and health in Wales and, in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State) are now exercisable in relation to England by the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act. Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the NationalAssembly for Wales by S.I.1999/672 as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act, and subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c.32). Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46) as read with section 40(2) of the 1999 Act.

[^f00003]: 1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (2006, c.51) and amended by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (2008 c.7).

[^f00004]: OJ No.L31, 1.2.2002, p.1. That Regulation was last amended by Regulation (EC) No.596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468 with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14).

[^f00005]: S.I. 2009/205.

[^f00006]: OJ No. L220, 15.8.2002, p.18. This Directive was corrected by a corrigendum (OJ No. L39, 13.2.2003, p.1), and has been amended by Commission Directives 2004/1/EC (OJ No. L7, 13.1.2004, p.45), 2004/19/EC (OJ No. L71, 10.3.2004, p.8), 2005/79/EC (OJ No. L302, 19.11.2005, p.35), 2007/19/EC (OJ No.L97, 12.4.2007, p.50), 2008/39/EC (OJ No L63, 7.3.2008, p.6) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 975/2009 (OJ No. L274, 20.10.2009, p.3).

[^f00007]: OJ No. L172, 30.6.2007, p.71. This Directive repealed and consolidated without further amendment Commission Directive 93/10/EEC as last amended by Commission Directive 2004/14/EC.

[^f00008]: OJ No. L338, 13.11.2004, p.4, amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14).

[^f00009]: OJ No. L384, 29.12.2006, p.75, amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No.282/2008 (OJ No. L86, 28.3.2008, p.9).

[^f00010]: OJ No. L135, 30.5.2009, p.3.

[^f00011]: 1984 c.22.

[^f00012]: OJ No. L213, 16.8.80, p.42.

[^f00013]: OJ No. L167, 24.6.81, p.6.

[^f00014]: S.I. 2005/898. Those Regulations were amended by S.I. 2005/2626, S.I. 2006/1401 and S.I. 2006/2687, but none of those instruments made amendments that are relevant to this provision.

[^f00015]: S.I. 1990/2463, amended by S.I. 2007/2790; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

[^f00016]: S.I. 1996/1499. The definition of ingredient was previously amended by S.I. 2009/3235.

[^f00017]: S.I. 2007/2790, amended by S.I. 2009/205 and S.I. 2009/2938.

Editorial notes

[^key-b98d111a1f2f374ba03c9e2cbc5f72a3]: Regulations revoked (20.11.2012) by The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2619), regs. 1, 31(c)

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