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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-and-hygiene-england-amendment-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2885",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety and Hygiene (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-and-hygiene-england-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Food, England\nMade 29th October 2014\nLaid before Parliament 7th November 2014\nComing into force 13th December 2014\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals, the common agricultural policy of the European Community and measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.\nAs required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety there has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation and evaluation of the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/2901."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2027."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny- Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14)."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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