Soft Drinks (Amendment) Regulations 1969
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1969 No. 1818
FOOD AND DRUGS
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Soft Drinks (Amendment) Regulations 196917thDecember 1969
30thDecember 1969
1stJanuary 1970
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Social Services, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 7 and 123 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a), as read with the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968(b), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations after consultation with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the regulations and reference to the Food Hygiene Advisory Council under section 82 of the said Act (insofar 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 Soft Drinks (Amendment) Regulations 1969, and shall come into operation on 1st January 1970.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these regulations the expression "the principal regulations" means the Soft Drinks Regulations 1964(c) and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein to a numbered regulation or schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or schedule bearing that number in the principal regulations.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(d) shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Amendment of the principal regulations
3. Regulation 2(1) shall be amended—
(a) by deleting the definition of cyclamic acid ;
(b) by deleting from the definition of permitted artificial sweetener the words "or cyclamic acid".
(a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16.
(b) S.I. 1968/1699 (1968 III, p. 4585).
(c) S.I. 1964/760 (1964 II, p. 1605).
(d) 1889 c. 63.
4. Regulation 5(2) shall be amended by substituting in sub-paragraph (a) of the proviso thereto for the words and figures "columns 4 and 5" the word and figure "column 4" and by deleting from that sub-paragraph the words "(calculated as therein required)".
5. Regulation 12 shall be amended by adding at the end thereof the following proviso :—
"Provided that the said description or descriptive name need not be included in the said declaration if a label on a container of the soft drink dispensed from the vending machine, or an exact facsimile of such label, bearing the said description, where applicable, and...
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