{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2013/3049",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Food, Wales\nMade 3 December 2013\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 5 December 2013\nComing into force 1 January 2014\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (“the 1972 Act”) and, for the purpose of making regulation 4 of the Regulations, sections 27(2) and (5), 30(9) and 31(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990.\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the 1972 Act in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food.\nThere has been consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c.16, as amended by S.I. 2004/3279. Functions under that Act were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, as read with section 40(3) of the Food Standards Act 1999, and subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1971. Functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales were subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c.32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny–Part Four (OJ L 188, 18.7.2009, p.14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/3049/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:40:30.438119+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."
}