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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2490",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Control of Irradiation) Regulations 1990",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Recognition of appropriate origin and withdrawal of recognition",
  "text": "(1) Recognition of appropriate origin may not be effected by the appropriate Ministers in respect of any plant capable of coming within paragraph 1(2)(b)(i) above unless they are satisfied—\n(a) that there is in effect an official authorisation which applies to that plant;\n(b) that that official authorisation includes provision for an approved method of measurement relating to food to which the official authorisation relates; and\n(c) that the terms of that official authorisation, as combined with the operation of the legislation in force in the country in which that plant is situated relating to the subjection there of food to treatment by ionising radiation, protects human health in relation to food subjected to treatment by ionising radiation in that plant to an extent not less than human health is protected by the operation of these Regulations in relation to food of a similar description when subjected in Great Britain to such treatment.\n(2) Recognition of appropriate origin may not be effected by the appropriate Ministers in respect of any country capable of coming within paragraph 1(2)(b)(ii) above unless they are satisfied—\n(a) that in that country food which is subjected to treatment by ionising radiation may only be so subjected if the person who subjects it has a current irradiation licence granted, under a reference by which that licence can be identified, by a competent authority in that country,\n(b) that any irradiation licence granted in that country includes provision for an approved method of measurement relating to food to which the licence relates, and\n(c) that the operation of the legislation in force in that country relating to the subjection there of food to treatment by ionising radiation protects human health to an extent not less than human health is protected by operation of these Regulations.\n(3) If the appropriate Ministers cease to be satisfied of the matters specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub-paragraph (1) above in respect of an origin in a plant or, as the case may be, of sub-paragraph (2) above in respect of an origin in a country they may publish in the London and Edinburgh Gazettes notice that, as from a date specified in the notice, that origin shall no longer be an appropriate origin for the purposes of these Regulations and, if such a notice is published, the recognition of appropriate origin shall cease to have effect on that date.",
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