{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2015/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/454",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Competent authorities",
  "text": "(1) The competent authorities for the purposes of specified Articles are —\n(a) in respect of Articles 9(1) and (3), 18(3), 19(3) and (7) and 21(1), the Agency and the enforcement authority;\n(b) in respect of Articles 7, 9(2), 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18(1),(2) and (4) and 19(2), the enforcement authority; and\n(c) in respect of Article 19(1), the Agency.\n(2) The competent authorities for the purposes of the section headed “Dioxin Monitoring” in Annex II are —\n(a) in respect of paragraph 2(f), the enforcement authority; and\n(b) in respect of paragraph 7, the enforcement authority and the Agency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2022) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1351), regs. 1(1), 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/454/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:23.622943+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}