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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/5",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-feed-hygiene-sampling-etc-and-enforcement-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "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), 20(2), 21(1) and 22(2)(b), the Agency and DARD;\n(b) in respect of Articles 7, 9(2), 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18(1), (2) and (4) and 19(2), DARD; 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), DARD; and\n(b) in respect of paragraph 7, DARD and the Agency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(2)(a) substituted (11.2.2019) by The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/5), regs. 1(1), 36(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/5/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:59:02.884423+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."
}