The Foods for Specific Groups (Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021
Scottish Statutory Instrument 2021 No. 123 — creates 10 criminal offences.
- Made
- 8 March 2021
- In force from
- 26 March 2021
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
- Made under
- (EC) No. 178/2002, Food Safety Act 1990, In accordance with section 48(4A) of the Food Safety Act 1990
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
These Regulations amend the Foods for Specific Groups (Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/6) (“the 2020 Regulations”) to apply the law that existed before 21 February 2021 in relation to infant formula and follow-on formula manufactured from protein hydrolysates from 26 March 2021 until 22 February 2022. Regulation 2 amends regulation 6 of the 2020 Regulations to disapply regulations 2 to 5 of the 2020 Regulations from infant formula and follow-on formula manufactured from protein hydrolysates. Regulation 2 also inserts a new schedule 4 into the 2020 Regulations. New schedule 4 contains the regulatory regime that applied to infant formula and follow-on formula manufactured from protein hydrolysates prior to 21February 2021. An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.
Offences created by this instrument
- It is an offence for a person to market infant formula which contravenes or fails to comply with paragraphs 4, 5, 7,… paragraph 2(1) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- It is an offence for a person to market follow-on formula which contravenes or fails to comply with paragraphs 4, 6,… paragraph 2(2) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Restrictions on advertising infant formula paragraph 20(1) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Restrictions on advertising follow-on formula paragraph 21 of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Restrictions on promotion of infant formula paragraph 22(1) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Restrictions on promotion of infant formula paragraph 22(2) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Provision of informational and educational material dealing with the feeding of infants paragraph 23(1) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Provision of informational and educational material dealing with the feeding of infants paragraph 23(4) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions contained in paragraphs 2, 3, 12, 20(1), 21,… paragraph 25(1) of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
- It is an offence to market or otherwise represent a product as suitable for satisfying by itself the nutritional… paragraph 3 of SCHEDULE · Status not determined · Strict liability
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