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Law in 101 words

07 April 2011 / Roderick Ramage
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Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary, by Roderick Ramage

Bread

The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998, SI 998/141 stipulates that bread,which is a food consisting of a dough from made flour and water, with or without other ingredients, which has been fermented by yeast or otherwise leavened and subsequently baked or partly baked, and that flour derived from wheat, but no other cereals, must contain calcium carbonate, iron, thiamin (vitamin B1) and nicotinic acid, unless it is wholemeal (or self-raising with a calcium content of not less than 0.2% or wheat malt flour) and iron, thiamin and nicotinic acid are naturally present in it in the specified quantities, not added.  
5.vii.10

Cleansing pupils

The Education Act 1996 ss 521 to 525 enables a local authority to have the persons and clothing of pupils at relevant schools examined whenever necessary in the interests of cleanliness and to have them cleansed at suitable premises, by suitable persons and with suitable appliances, if found to be infested with vermin or in a foul condition, and the pupil’s parent fails

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