| Guvnor

Enforced by: FSA
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 3 of 22 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 19 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person15 Manufacturer6 Operator1

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Any Person — also bound by 2340 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

Manufacturer — also bound by 502 other Acts

Pressure Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016 93 duties

Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016 85 duties

Non-Automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016 78 duties

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/654 of 19 December 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to technical and general requirements relating to emission limits and type-approval for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery 76 duties

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 75 duties

Operator — also bound by 746 other Acts

Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (Air Operations) 203 duties

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (Text with EEA relevance) 121 duties

Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 of 21 June 2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed) 112 duties

Space Industry Regulations 2021 76 duties

Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’) (Text with EEA relevance) 66 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.

5 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Title, commencement and application

s.002 Interpretation

s.003 Enforcement

s.004 Application of provisions of the Act

s.005 Revocations, savings and transitional provisions

Schedules

22 of 43 shown

s.sch002 Section 35 of the Act (punishment of offences) applies as... Prosecution

Fail to comply with infant formula regulationsAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.sch002 Section 20 of the Act (offences due to fault of... Prosecution

Cause another business to breach infant formula regulationsAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.sch004 Prohibitions and limitations on the use of food ingredients (infant formula and follow-on formula) Regulated

Comply with ingredient restrictions in infant formula and follow-on formulaManufacturer

s.sch004 Listed substances and their purity criteria (infant formula and follow-on formula) Regulated

Use only listed substances meeting purity criteria in infant formula manufacturingAny Person

s.sch004 Notification of infant formula Regulated

Notify Welsh Ministers before placing new infant formula in WalesOperator

s.sch004 Pesticide residues (infant formula and follow-on formula) Regulated

Ensure pesticide residues in infant formula and follow-on formula do not exceed specified limitsAny Person

s.sch004 Naming of infant formula Regulated

Only sell infant formula under the name 'infant formula'Any Person

s.sch004 Naming of follow-on formula Regulated

Sell follow-on formula only under the name 'follow-on formula'Any Person

s.sch004 Labelling of infant formula Regulated

Label infant formula with mandatory information and restrictionsAny Person

s.sch004 Labelling of follow-on formula Regulated

Label follow-on formula with required statements and nutritional informationAny Person

s.sch004 Avoidance of the risk of confusion between infant formula and follow-on formula Regulated

Label infant formula and follow-on formula distinctlyAny Person

s.sch004 Presentation (infant formula and follow-on formula) Regulated

Ensure presentation of infant formula and follow-on formula complies with specified rulesAny Person

s.sch004 Restrictions on advertising infant formula Regulated

Do not advertise infant formula except in limited circumstancesAny Person

s.sch004 Restrictions on advertising follow-on formula Regulated

Do not advertise follow-on formula in breach of advertising rulesAny Person

s.sch004 Provision of informational and educational material dealing with the feeding of infants Regulated

Ensure infant feeding informational materials meet content and donation rulesManufacturer

s.sch004 Free or reduced rate infant formula Regulated

Use or distribute free/reduced infant formula only for infants who need itAny Person

s.sch004 Offences and enforcement Prosecution

Fail to comply with infant formula regulationsAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.sch004 Substances in such quantity as to endanger the health of infants and young children Regulated

Ensure formula does not contain harmful levels of substancesAny Person

s.sch004 Protein hydrolysates and other food ingredients suitable for infants from birth (infant formula) Regulated

Demonstrate suitability of protein hydrolysates and novel ingredients in infant formulaManufacturer

s.sch004 Protein hydrolysates and other food ingredients suitable for infants aged over 6 months (follow-on formula) Regulated

Manufacture follow-on formula only from permitted ingredientsManufacturer

s.sch004 Compositional criteria for infant formula Regulated

Ensure infant formula meets compositional criteria and additional evidence for protein hydrolysatesManufacturer

s.sch004 Compositional criteria for follow-on formula Regulated

Ensure follow-on formula meets compositional criteria and conduct studies for certain hydrolysate formulasManufacturer

21 other schedules

s.sch002 Section 10 of the Act (improvement notices) applies as if,...

s.sch002 Section 29 of the Act (procurement of samples) applies as...

s.sch002 Section 30 of the Act (analysis etc. of samples) applies...

s.sch002 Section 33 of the Act (obstruction etc. of officers) applies...

s.sch002 Section 36 of the Act (offences by bodies corporate) applies...

s.sch002 Section 36A of the Act (offences by Scottish partnerships) applies...

s.sch002 Section 44 of the Act (protection of officers acting in...

s.sch002 Section 53 (general interpretation) applies as if—

s.sch002 Section 32 of the Act (powers of entry) applies as...

s.sch002 Section 37 of the Act (appeals to magistrates' court or...

s.sch002 Section 39 of the Act (appeals against improvement notices) applies...

s.sch002 Section 3 of the 1990 Act (presumptions that food intended...

s.sch002 Section 21 of the Act (defence of due diligence) applies...

s.sch002 Section 22 of the Act (defence of publication in the...

s.sch004 Interpretation

s.sch004 Prohibition on the marketing of infant formula or follow-on formula unless certain conditions are met

s.sch004 Restrictions on promotion of infant formula

s.sch004 Application of the improvement notice provisions of the Act

s.sch004 Application of various sections of the Act

s.sch004 Prohibition on the marketing of products other than infant formula for normal healthy infants

s.sch004 Addition of water (infant formula and follow-on formula)

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Wales) Regulations 2020

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What it requires

Schedules