{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-partial-revocation-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-partial-revocation-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2766",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-partial-revocation-order-1991",
  "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 6th December 1991\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 1991\nComing into force 11th December 1991\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1) and (2) and 24(1) and (3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985() and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (S.) (1.10.2012) by The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) and the Export of Sheep (Prohibition) Revocation (Scotland) Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/263), art. 1, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 48; section 1 was amended by section 51 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16). Section 1(2) defines “designating authority” and section 24(1) contains a definition of “the Ministers” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which this Order is made."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2766/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:04.854045+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."
}