{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-enforcement-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-enforcement-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/492",
  "legislation_title": "Food Safety (Enforcement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-enforcement-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Enforcement of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Article 26(1A) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and subject to paragraph (2) the whole of that Order is specified in the case of—\n(a) dairy farms;\n(b) liquid milk plants;\n(c) the importation of milk;\n(d) the transport of milk;\n(e) meat plants other than—\n(i) meat plants which are not, and do not share a common curtilage with, licensed premises and which are used exclusively for the production or storage of one or more of the following—\n(aa) meat products;\n(bb) minced meat which is not intended for sending out of the United Kingdom;\n(cc) meat preparations;\n(dd) other products of animal origin;\n(ii) meat plants or parts of meat plants which are, or share a common curtilage with, licensed premises and which are used exclusively for the production or storage of one or more of the following—\n(aa) meat products;\n(bb) other products of animal origin.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(e) shall apply only in relation to the Department of Agriculture’s functions under the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995, the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, the Wild Game Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and the Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/492/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:19.090318+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."
}