Cocoa and Chocolate Products (Amendment) Regulations 1982
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1982/17 |
| Year | 1982 |
1982 No. 17
FOOD
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Cocoa and Chocolate Products (Amendment) Regulations 19828thJanuary 1982
18thJanuary 1982
8thFebruary 1982
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Social Services and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4, 7, 123 and 123A of the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a) and now vested in them(b) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 123(6) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the regulations and after reference to the Food Hygiene Advisory Council under section 82 of the said Act (in so far as the regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7):—
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Cocoa and Chocolate Products (Amendment) Regulations 1982, and shall come into operation on 8th February 1982.
Amendment of the Cocoa and Chocolate Products Regulations 1976
2. The Cocoa and Chocolate Products Regulations 1976(c) are hereby amended as follows:—
(1) In regulation 2(1), the definition of "milk solids" shall be deleted and replaced by the following:
"milk solids" means all the constituents of milk other than water and fat, in their natural proportions, and milk fat;
(2) In regulation 5(3)(f), the concluding words; "lecithins, an indication of the percentage of added lecithins;" shall be deleted and replaced by "ammonium phosphatides or lecithins, a declaration of the percentage thereof;"
(a) 1955 c. 16 (4 & 5 Eliz.2); section 4 was amended, and section 123A inserted, by section 4(1) of and paragraph 3(1) and (2)(a) of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68).
(b) S.I. 1968/1699, 1978/272.
(c) S.I. 1976/541.
(3) In regulation 5(3)(g), the words "or lecithins" shall be inserted in line 6 immediately after "ammonium phosphatides".
(4) In Part II of Schedule 1, (which provides reserved descriptions for specified chocolate products) for the definition specified in column 2 in relation to the reserved description "Gianduja nut chocolate" there shall be substituted the following:
"Any product complying with the definition specified in this Part of this Schedule in relation to the reserved description "chocolate" except that—
(a) it contains not less than 32 per...
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