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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-establishments-and-intermediaries-regulations-1999/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-establishments-and-intermediaries-regulations-1999/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1872",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-establishments-and-intermediaries-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Procedure relating to the withdrawal of approvals",
  "text": "(1) Where, in the circumstances described in regulation 15(2), the competent body proposes to withdraw an approval relating to the exercise of an intermediary activity by an approved intermediary, the competent body shall not withdraw the approval unless—\n(a) it serves a written notice complying with the requirements of paragraph (2) on the intermediary, and\n(b) after the time for compliance with that notice has expired, it is not satisfied that the intermediary has complied with the requirements specified in the notice.\n(2) A notice served by the competent body under paragraph (1) shall—\n(a) state that it proposes to withdraw the approval relating to the intermediary activity concerned, because it is not satisfied that the intermediary is complying, in relation to that activity, with regulation 45, 49, 62, 66, 77 or 79, as the case may be;\n(b) specify—\n(i) the essential conditions it is satisfied that the intermediary is not complying with; and\n(ii) the requirements that the intermediary must comply with in order to satisfy it as to compliance with those essential conditions; and\n(c) state that, unless it is satisfied that the intermediary has complied with those requirements, within such reasonable time as is specified in the notice, the approval for the exercise of the intermediary activity concerned will be withdrawn.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1872/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:20:22.477539+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."
}