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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheese-and-cream-regulations-1995/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3240",
  "legislation_title": "The Cheese and Cream Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheese-and-cream-regulations-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD\nMade 12th December 1995\nLaid before Parliament 13th December 1995\nComing into force 1st January 1996\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)(a), (e) and (f), 26(1) and (3) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 6(4) was amended by section 31 of and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 16; “the Ministers” is defined in section 4(1) of the Act."
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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."
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