{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-sampling-and-analysis-regulations-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-sampling-and-analysis-regulations-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1663",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-sampling-and-analysis-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "AGRICULTURE\nMade 11th June 1999\nLaid before Parliament 14th June 1999\nComing into force 6th July 1999\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 67(5), 74A, 75(1), 76(1), 77(4), 78(6), 79(1), (2) and (9) and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 84(1) of the said Act with such persons or organisations as appear to them to represent the interests concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 40; section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 6, and the Act was amended by the Agriculture Act 1970 Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980). The definition of “the Ministers” was amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1663/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:36:06.238560+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."
}