{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-partial-revocation-order-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-partial-revocation-order-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/82",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-partial-revocation-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order partially revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991 which contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food which has been, or which may have been, rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the Ukraine.\nThis Order reduces the area subject to restriction.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/82/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:39:10.459105+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."
}