{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-wales-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Food, Wales\nMade 27 January 2025\nLaid before Senedd Cymru 29 January 2025\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(4), 16(1)(a), (c), (e) and (f), 18(1)(c), 26(1)(a), (2)(e) and (3), and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990.\nThe Welsh Ministers have had regard to advice given by the Food Standards Agency as required by section 48(4A) of the Food Safety Act 1990.\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 during the preparation and evaluation of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16. Section 6(4) was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 5 to, and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28), and by Schedule 2 to S.I. 2002/794. Sections 16(1), 18(1) and 48(1) were amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999, and section 26(3) was amended by Schedule 6 to that Act. The relevant functions under the Food Safety Act 1990, formerly exercisable by “the Ministers”, were so far as exercisable in relation to Wales transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672 as read with section 40(3) of the Food Standards Act 1999. Those functions are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 48(4A) was inserted by paragraph 21 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999. That amendment took effect subject to section 40(3) of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "EUR 2002/178, amended by S.I. 2019/641; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/88/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:58:42.283241+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."
}