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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/306",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 13th June 2003\nComing into operation\nregulations 1 to 4, 6, 7 and 9 1st August 2003\nregulations 5, 8 and 10 6th November 2003\nThe Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 68(1) and (1A), 69(1), 74A, 75(1), 76(1), 84 and 86 of the Agriculture Act 1970 (as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, after consultation as required by section 84(1) of that Act and 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, and being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that last mentioned section (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers of the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 40; sections 68(1A) and 74A were inserted by the Agriculture Act 1970 Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980) and the European Communities Act 1972 (1972 c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 6 respectively"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 78"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L31, 1.2.2002, p. 1. Under Article 3 of the EC Regulation “food law” extends to feed produced for, or fed to, food producing animals"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2027"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1972 c. 68"
    }
  ],
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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."
}