{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-scallops-irish-sea-revocation-order-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2686",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Scallops) (Irish Sea) (Revocation) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-scallops-irish-sea-revocation-order-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND\nCONTAMINATION OF FOOD\nMade 15.10 on 15th October 2004\nLaid before Parliament 18th October 2004\nComing into force in accordance with article 1\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1) and (2) and 24(3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, no longer being of the opinion that there exist or may exist circumstances which are likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumption of food as specified in the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Scallops) (Irish Sea) Order 2004, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 48; section 1(2) defines “designating authority”; section 1(1) and (2) was amended by section 51(1) and (2)(a) and (b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (1990 c. 16); section 1(2) was further amended by the Scotland Act (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1756) and by paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (1999 c. 28)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/2040, amended by S.I. 2004/2123."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2686/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."
}