Labelling of Food (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations, 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1959/571 |
| Year | 1959 |
1959 No. 571 (S. 23)
The Labelling of Food (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations, 195925thMarch 1959
3rdApril 1959
27thApril 1959
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 7 and 56 of the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act, 1956(a) and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, and after consultation with such organisations as appear to me to be representative of interests substantially affected by these regulations and having referred a draft of these regulations to the Scottish Food Hygiene Council under section 25 of the said Act, I hereby make the following regulations:—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Labelling of Food (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations, 1959, and shall come into operation on the 27th day of April, 1959.
(a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 30.
2. The Labelling of Food Order, 1953(a), as amended(b), shall be further amended as follows:—
(a) by inserting in Part IV thereof the following Article:—
"6A.—(1) For the purposes of this Article (except as regards the description "ice-cream" in paragraph (4) hereof) each reference to ice-cream shall include a reference to ices but nothing in this Article shall apply in relation to water ices, including ice lollies.
(2) No person shall give with any ice-cream sold by him or display with any ice-cream exposed by him for sale any label, whether attached to or printed on the wrapper or container or not, which bears any word or pictorial device which refers to, or is suggestive of, butter, cream or milk or of anything connected with the dairy interest unless the ice-cream contains no fat other than milk fat (save as may be introduced by the use as an ingredient of any egg, any flavouring substance or any emulsifying or stabilising agent):
Provided that the label may include a statement to the effect that the ice-cream contains skimmed milk solids.
(3) No person shall publish, or be party to the publication of, any advertisement for ice-cream which includes any word or pictorial device which refers to, or is suggestive of, butter, cream or milk or of anything connected with the dairy interest unless the ice-cream to which the advertisement relates contains no fat other than milk fat (save as may be introduced by the use as an ingredient of any egg, any flavouring substance or any emulsifying or stabilising agent):
Provided that the advertisement may include a statement to the effect that the ice-cream contains skimmed milk solids.
(4) After 30th November, 1959, no person...
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