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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-england-partial-revocation-order-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2776",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) (England) (Partial Revocation) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-england-partial-revocation-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES\nPUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND\nPUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND\nCONTAMINATION OF FOOD\nMade 9th December 1991\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 1991\nComing into force 11th December 1991\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, being of the opinion in accordance with section 1(1) of that Act 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 or may be in the future derived from sheep in the area described in Part II of the Schedule to 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 24was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 3 to that Act; section 1(2) defines “designating authority”and section 24(1) defines “the Ministers”."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2776/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."
}