{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1989/846",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Interpretation (Articles 22 to 26)",
  "text": "(1) In Articles 22 to 26—\n“closure order” means an order made under Article 22(1);\n“emergency order” means an order made under Article 23(1);\n“food” and “food business” have the meanings assigned to them by the Food Hygiene (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1964;\n“food hygiene regulations” means regulations made under Article 15;\n“interested person” has the meaning given in Article 24(2);\n“owner” means, in relation to premises which are not a stall or vehicle, any person who receives or is entitled to receive, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for another, a rack rent, or who, if the premises were let at a rack rent, would so receive or be entitled to receive that rent;\n“premises” includes any stall, vehicle or place to which food hygiene regulations apply.\n(2) In paragraph (1), in the definition of “owner”, “rack rent” means a rent which is not less than two-thirds of the net annual value shown in the valuation list for the purposes of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1964 No. 129"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 NI 28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/846/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:23.022197+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."
}