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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-irradiation-provisions-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2000/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Irradiation Provisions (Scotland) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-irradiation-provisions-scotland-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For regulation 8 (defence in relation to exports) there shall be substituted–\n“In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that food, in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed, was intended for export to a country which is not a member of the European Community, that the country had legislation analogous to these Regulations and that the food complies with such legislation.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 20.9.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/616",
      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/309/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:49:45.836915+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."
}