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11 Children's Food
Bill
| Date introduced to the House of Commons
Current Bill Number
Previous Reports
| 18 May 2004
House of Commons 110
None
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11.1 The Children's Food Bill provides a power to make regulations
prohibiting the marketing of certain foods and drinks to children,
where the Food Standards Agency has decided that their content
is detrimental to the health of children.[158]
Such a prohibition would engage freedom of commercial expression
under Article 10 ECHR, and the compatibility of any such prohibition
would depend on the precise form of the regulations, but we consider
it likely to be a proportionate interference serving the legitimate
aim of the protection of health.
11.2 The Bill also bans the sale of such food or
drink to children on school premises.[159]
This might engage the right to property/peaceful enjoyment of
possessions in Article 1 of Protocol 1 ECHR, if it were to interfere
with vested contractual rights, but we consider that such interference
would be likely to be a proportionate interference serving the
legitimate aim of public health.
158 Clause 3(1) Back
159
Clause 6(1) Back
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