- Enforced by
- Food Standards Scotland
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 2 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person1
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.003
Enforcement
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Food authorities must enforce the Novel Foods Regulations in their areaLocal authority
s.004
Offence and penalty
Prosecution
- Fail to comply with novel food authorisation requirementsAny Person
Unlimited fine
4 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.005
Application of various provisions of the Act
s.006
Revocation
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.