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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-miscellaneous-amendment-and-revocation-scotland-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Miscellaneous Amendment and Revocation) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend regulation 20 of the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (“the 2012 Regulations”) to make its meaning clearer.\nParagraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 is cited in the enabling powers for these Regulations because reference is made in regulation 2 to certain EU instruments which are defined in the 2012 Regulations as meaning those EU instruments as amended from time to time.\nIn addition, these Regulations revoke—\n(a) the Arsenic in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1959 and related amending instruments; and\n(b) the Chloroform in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1980.\nSchedule 2 to these Regulations makes amendments consequential to the revocations.\nA Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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."
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