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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-scotland-act-2015/section-53",
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  "legislation": "asp/2015/1",
  "legislation_title": "Food (Scotland) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-scotland-act-2015",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Meanings of “food” and “animal feeding stuffs”",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“food” has the same meaning as in Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 (as at 7 December 2004),\n“animal feeding stuffs” means feeding stuffs for any description of animal.\n(2) The reference in subsection (1) to “feeding stuffs” includes any nutritional supplement or other similar substance which is not administered through oral feeding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/99, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2015/1/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:53.850121+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."
}