{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amnesic-shellfish-poisoning-order-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1005",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amnesic-shellfish-poisoning-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES\nPUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND\nPUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND\nCONTAMINATION OF FOOD\nMade 25th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 30th March 1999\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(1)\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him 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 him 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 makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 48; section 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”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1005/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."
}