{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2001/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2001/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/389",
  "legislation_title": "Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 19th October 2001.\n(2) In this Order—\n(a) “designated area” means the area designated in Article 3 and the Schedule;\n(b) “relevant time” means, in relation to the designated area, 0001 hours on 16th October 2001;\n(c) “scallops” means Queen scallops of the class of Chlamys opercularis;\n(d) “the Department” means the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/389/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:58.125068+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."
}