UK Statutory Instrument SI 2016/688 England

The Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) Regulations 2016

These Regulations make provision to enforce, in England, Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the provisions of food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives …

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Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Prosecution 2 of 5 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 2 carry different penalties and 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

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Any Person5

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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.

8 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation, application and commencement
s.002 Interpretation
s.003 Enforcement
s.004 Application of provisions of the Act
s.005 Revocation
s.006 Amendments to statutory instruments
s.007 Review
s.008 Transitional Arrangements
Schedules

Schedules

5 of 21 shown
s.sch002 In section 35, after subsection (1A), insert— Prosecution
  • Fail to comply with improvement notice for specific group foodsAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.sch002 In section 35(2), after “any other offence under this Act”,... Regulated
  • Obstruct or give false information under food for specific groups regulationsAny Person
s.sch003 The Foods Intended for Use in Energy Restricted Diets for... Regulated
  • Sell total diet replacement under correct name and in single packageAny Person
s.sch003 The Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and... Regulated
  • Fail to comply with improvement notice for cereal-based infant food rulesAny Person
s.sch003 The Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for... Prosecution
  • Fail to comply with improvement noticeAny Person

Unlimited fine

16 other schedules
s.sch002 For section 10(1) substitute— (1) If an authorised officer of...
s.sch002 For section 37(3) substitute— (3) The appeals procedure under the...
s.sch002 For section 37(5) substitute— (5) The notice of appeal period...
s.sch002 In section 37(6)— (a) for “(3) or (4)” substitute “...
s.sch002 For section 39(1) for “court” (both times it appears) substitute...
s.sch002 In section 39(3), omit “for want of prosecution”.
s.sch002 Section 10(3) does not apply.
s.sch002 After section 10(3) insert— (4) In this section “specified EU...
s.sch002 For paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 32(1) substitute—
s.sch002 Section 32(9) does not apply.
s.sch002 After section 32(9) insert— (10) In this section “specified EU...
s.sch002 In section 35(1), after “section 33(1) above”, insert “as applied...
s.sch002 In section 37(1), omit paragraphs (b) and (c), and for...
s.sch003 The Medical Food (England) Regulations 2000 are amended as follows—...
s.sch003 The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (England) Regulations 2007 are...
s.sch004 Schedule 4 para.wrapper1n2

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