{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-lead-in-cattle-england-no-2-order-1990/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2582",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Lead in Cattle) (England) (No. 2) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-lead-in-cattle-england-no-2-order-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Order made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, laid before Parliament under section 1(8) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, for approval by resolution of each House of 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, ENGLAND AND WALES\nCONTAMINATION OF FOOD\nMade 18th December 1990\nLaid before Parliament 19th December 1990\nComing into force 19th December 1990\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 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 cattle 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 was amended by section 51 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 authority and section 24(1) defines Ministers"
    }
  ],
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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."
}