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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-establishments-and-intermediaries-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/74",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-establishments-and-intermediaries-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\n1. These Regulations amend, in relation to Northern Ireland, the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1872, as already amended), which extend to the whole of the United Kingdom. These Regulations implement Council Decision 98/728/EC concerning a Community system of fees in the animal feed sector (O.J. No. L346, 22.12.98, p. 51).\n2. These Regulations amend S.I. 1999/1872 by –\n(a) inserting a new regulation, 9A, into that instrument, providing for the payment of fees and the reimbursement of the costs of laboratory analyses to the specified approval body (“the competent body”) by a person applying to that body for approval of an establishment under regulation 5 or 7 of that instrument, and making supplementary provisions relating thereto (regulation 4);\n(b) inserting a new regulation, 16A, into that instrument, providing for the payment of fees and the reimbursement of the costs of laboratory analyses to the competent body by a person applying to it for approval as an “intermediary” under regulation 12 or 14 of that instrument, and making supplementary provisions relating thereto (regulation 5); and\n(c) inserting a new Schedule, 1A, into that instrument, specifying the fees payable by virtue of new regulations 9A and 16A (regulation 6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/74/note",
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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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