The Specified Sugar Products (Wales) Regulations 2003

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations —

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“candy sugar” (“siwgr candi”) means crystalline sugar with crystals having any dimension greater than one centimetre;

“catering establishment” (“sefydliad arlwyo”) means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;

“EEA Agreement” (“Cytundeb yr AEE”) means the Agreement on the European Economic Area(1) signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol(2) signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;

“EEA State” (“Gwladwriaeth yr AEE”) means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;

“food authority” (“awdurdod bwyd”) has the same meaning as in section 5(1A) and (3)(a) and (b) of the Food Safety Act 1990;

“icing sugar” (“siwgr eisin”) means fine particles of white sugar or extra-white sugar or mixtures thereof;

“the 1996 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1996”) means the Food Labelling Regulations 1996(3);

“preparation” (“paratoi”) includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment and “prepared” shall be construed accordingly;

“reserved description”, (“disgrifiad neilltuedig”) as respects any specified sugar product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1 (as read with the notes relating to that Schedule) and the use of any such description in these Regulations shall be construed as meaning the product to which that description relates;

“sell” (“gwerthu”) includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

“specified sugar product” (“cynnyrch siwgr penodedig”) means any food specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 (as read with the Notes relating to that Schedule) but does not include any such food in the form of icing sugar, candy sugar or sugar in loaf form;

“sugar in loaf form” (“siwgr lwmp”) means a piece of agglomerated crystalline sugar, usually conically shaped, weighing not less than 250 grammes; and

“ultimate consumer” (“defnyddiwr olaf”) means any person who buys otherwise than —

(a)

for the purpose of resale,

(b)

for the purposes of a catering establishment, or

(c)

for the purposes of a manufacturing business.

(1)

OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.1.

(2)

OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p.571.

(3)

S.I. 1996/1499.