{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/47",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Control of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid in compound feeding stuffs",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not sell, or have in possession with a view to sale—\n(a) any compound feeding stuff composed mainly of rice by-products in which the level of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid exceeds 3.3% of its dry matter; or\n(b) subject to paragraph (2), any other compound feeding stuff in which the level of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid exceeds 2.2% of its dry matter.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply to the sale of any compound feeding stuff which—\n(a) contains permitted mineral binders named or described in Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2439/1999 on the conditions for authorisation of additives belonging to the group “binders, anti-caking agents and coagulants” in feeding stuffs;\n(b) is a mineral feeding stuff;\n(c) contains more than 50% of sugar beet chips or sugar beet pulp; or\n(d) is intended for farmed fish and has a fish meal content of more than 15%,\nif the level of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid is declared in the statutory statement as a percentage of the feeding stuff as such.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in operation at 2.4.2001, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L297, 18.11.1999, p. 8. Amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 739/2000 (O.J. No. L87, 8.4.2000, p. 14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/47",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/428",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/428",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/47/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:00.843776+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."
}