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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/747",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD\nMade 17th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 18th March 1999\nComing into force 19th March 1999\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1)(e) and (f), 17, 18, 26(1) and (3) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of that Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16; “the Ministers” is defined in section 4(1) of the Act; section 6(4)(a) of the Act was amended by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), Schedule 9, paragraph 6."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/747/introduction",
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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."
}