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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/428",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 13th December 2001\nComing into operation 1st February 2002\nThe Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety acting in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 68(1), (1A) and (3), 69(1), (3), (6) and (7), 70(1), 73(3), 74(1), 74A, 77(4), 78(6), 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 with such persons or ogranisations as appear to it to represent the interests concerned, and being a Department 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 and measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) (in so far as these Regulations cannot be made under the powers in the Agriculture Act 1970 specified above), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 40; as amended by S.I. 1982/980"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 78"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. The enabling powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "As read with section 2(5) of the European Economic Area Act 1993"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/428/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:33.016662+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."
}