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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-produce-quotas-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/70",
  "legislation_title": "Dairy Produce Quotas (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dairy-produce-quotas-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "food\nMade 25th February 2008\nComing into operation- 1st April 2008\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that it is expedient for—\n(a) the references in these Regulations to—\n(i) Article 55(1)(a),\n(ii) Article 55(2), in so far as it relates to milk and other milk products, and\n(iii) the provisions of, or referred to in, Section III of Chapter III of Part II,\nof Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation);\n(b) the references in these Regulations to Commission Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector,\nto be construed as references to those Articles and provisions and to that Commission Regulation as amended from time to time.\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2812."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L299, 16.11.2007, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L94, 31.3.2004, p. 22 as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1913/2006 (O.J. No. L365, 21.12.2006, p. 52). Although Council Regulation (EC) No. 1788/2003 (O.J. No. L270, 21.10.2003, p. 123) is repealed on 1st April 2008 by virtue of Article 201(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 (“the 2007 Regulation”), the reference to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1788/2003 is to be read as a reference to the 2007 Regulation by virtue of Article 202 of the 2007 Regulation."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51)."
    }
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  "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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