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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-peanuts-from-egypt-emergency-control-england-and-wales-order-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/375",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Peanuts from Egypt) (Emergency Control) (England and Wales) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-peanuts-from-egypt-emergency-control-england-and-wales-order-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 21st February 2000\nLaid before Parliament 22nd February 2000\nComing into force 23rd February 2000\nWhereas it appears to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that the import of peanuts originating in, or consigned from, Egypt may, save as permitted by the following Order, involve imminent risk of injury to health,\nNow therefore the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 6(4), 13(1) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16; “the Minister” is defined in section 4(2); section 6(4) of the Act was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40). See also paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/375/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:45.483595+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."
}