{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-paralytic-shellfish-poisoning-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-paralytic-shellfish-poisoning-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1235",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-paralytic-shellfish-poisoning-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Order made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, laidbefore Parliament under section 1(8) of the Food and EnvironmentProtection Act 1985, for approval by resolution of each House ofParliament within twenty-eight days beginning with the day on which theOrder was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution,prorogation or adjournment for more than four days.\nPUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES\nPUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND\nPUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND\nCONTAMINATION OF FOOD\nMade 22nd May 1991\nLaid before Parliament 23rd May 1991\nComing into force 22nd May 1991\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of thepowers 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 whichare likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumptionof food and that in consequence food which is derived or may be in thefuture derived from scallops in the area described in the followingOrder, 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 theFood Safety Act 1990 (c. 16), and section 24(1) was amended by paragraph29 of Schedule 3 to that Act; section 1(2) defines“designating authority” and section 24(1) defines“the Ministers”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1235/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."
}