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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-animals-and-animal-products-from-belgium-emergency-control-amendment-order-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1763",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Animals and Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) (Amendment) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-animals-and-animal-products-from-belgium-emergency-control-amendment-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD\nMade 29th June 1999\nLaid before Parliament 29th June 1999\nComing into force 30th June 1999\nWhereas it appears to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that the carrying out of commercial operations with respect to animals and animal products originating from Belgium may involve imminent risk of injury to health, now therefore the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 6(4), 13(1) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16; “the Minister” is defined in section 4(2); section 6(4) of the Act was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40)."
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  "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."
}