{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amnesic-shellfish-poisoning-no-2-order-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amnesic-shellfish-poisoning-no-2-order-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/1999/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 2) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amnesic-shellfish-poisoning-no-2-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Order made by the Scottish Ministers, laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 1(8) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament within twenty-eight days beginning with the day on which the Order was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution, prorogation or adjournment for more than four days.\nPUBLIC HEALTH\nCONTAMINATION OF FOOD\nMade 9th July 1999\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 13th July 1999\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(1)\nThe Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1(1) and (2) and section 24(1) and (3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, being of the opinion that there exist or may exist circumstances which are likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumption of food and that in consequence food which is derived or may be in the future derived from bivalve molluscs in the area described in the following Order, is, or may be, or may become, unsuitable for human consumption, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 48; sections 1(1) and (2) were amended by section 51(2)(a) and (b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16); and section 24(1) was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 3 to that Act; section 1(2) defines “designating authority”; and section 24(1) defines “the Ministers”; section 1(1) and (2) and 24(1) were further amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1756); the functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/1999/3/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."
}