{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-136",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-136.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/30",
  "legislation_title": "Food Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984",
  "path": "section/136",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "136",
  "heading": "Citation, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Food Act 1984.\n(2) The following provisions of this Act apply to Scotland—\n(a) sections 68 and 69, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 9,\nb), (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) This Act comes into force at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which it is passed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 136(2)(b)(c) repealed (E.W.S.) by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 54, 59(4), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 136(3) repealed (N.I.) (4.11.1991) by S.I. 1991/762, art. 51(4), Sch. 4; S.R. 1991/175, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/30/section/136",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:26.993897+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."
}