Amendment of the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
13. In regulation 50 (transitional provision), there shall be inserted at the end –
“(12) In any proceedings for an offence under regulation 44(a), it shall be a defence to prove that –
(a)the food concerned was marked or labelled before 25th November 2005; and
(b)the matters constituting the alleged offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made by the following provisions of The Food Labelling (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004, namely –
(i)regulation 3(b),
(ii)regulation 5 in so far as it substitutes a new regulation 13(5), and
(iii)regulations 6, 7(a), 8, 9, 12 and 15,
had not been in operation when the food was sold.”.