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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-regulations-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-regulations-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD\nMade 22nd January 1998\nLaid before Parliament 28th January 1998\nComing into force 19th February 1998\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1), 18(1)(c), 26(1)(a) and (3) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of that Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (W.) (19.2.2025) by The Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/88), regs. 1(2), 14 (with regs. 15, 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16; “the Ministers\" is defined in section 4(1) of the Act. Section 6(4) of the Act was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/141/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}