{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/451",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 4th December 1995\nComing into operation 15th January 1996\nThe Department of Agriculture, 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, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and sections 66(1), 68(1), (1A) and (3), 69(1), (3), (6) and (7), 70(1), 73(3), 74(1), 74A, 84 and 86 of the Agriculture Act 1970 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation with such persons or organisations as appear to it to represent the interests concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to the Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.R. 1984 No. 253"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Inserted by S.I. 1982/980 regulation 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Inserted by 1972 c. 68 section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1970 c. 40 as amended by S.I. 1982/980"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/451/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:38:50.292127+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."
}