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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-amendment-scotland-regulations-2024/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2024/387",
  "legislation_title": "The Bread and Flour Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-amendment-scotland-regulations-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Food\nMade 18th December 2024\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 20th December 2024\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 16(1)(a) and (e), 18(1)(c), 26(1)(a) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990, and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nThere has been consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.\nThe Scottish Ministers have had regard to relevant advice given by Food Standards Scotland in accordance with section 48(4A) of the Food Safety Act 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16. Section 16(1) and section 48(1) were amended by paragraph 8 of schedule 5 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28) (“the 1999 Act”). Amendments made by schedule 5 of the 1999 Act which extend to Scotland are to be taken as pre-commencement enactments for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) by virtue of section 40(2) of the 1999 Act. The functions conferred on the Secretary of State under sections 16(1)(e) and 48(1) of the 1990 Act, so far as within devolved competence were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EUR 2002/178, to which there are amendments, but none are relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 48(6) was amended by paragraph 3 of the schedule of the 2015 Act, in its application to Scotland, so that references to the Food Standards Agency in section 48 are to be read as references to Food Standards Scotland. Section 48(4A) was inserted by paragraph 21 of schedule 5 of the 1999 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/387/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:37:32.498555+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."
}