- Enforced by
- FSA
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 4 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 3 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person4
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.005
Reserved descriptions
Regulated
- Do not sell food labelled with reserved descriptions unless conditions metAny Person
s.006
Labelling and description of designated products
Regulated
- Label designated chocolate products with required descriptions and content declarationsAny Person
s.007
Manner of marking or labelling
Regulated
- Show required chocolate product info near ingredients in boldAny Person
s.008
Penalties and enforcement
Prosecution
- Breach cocoa and chocolate product labelling rulesAny Person
Unlimited fine
8 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Title, commencement and application
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Vegetable fats in chocolate products
s.004
Scope of Regulations
s.009
Defence in relation to exports
s.010
Application of various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990
s.011
Amendments and revocations
s.012
Transitional provision
Schedules
Schedules
0 of 7 shown7 other schedules
s.sch001
Notes.
s.sch001
(1) The minimum contents of the designated chocolate products specified...
s.sch001
In this Schedule, “sugars” includes sugars defined in Part A...
s.sch002
Subject to the following paragraphs of this Schedule, the vegetable...
s.sch002
In conformity with the criteria specified in paragraph 1 above,...
s.sch002
Coconut oil may be used in chocolate for the manufacture...
s.sch002
In this Schedule— “P” means palmitic acid; “O” means oleic...
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.