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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Honey Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/honey-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Food\nMade 29th May 2015\nComing into operation 24th June 2015\nThe Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 15 (1)(a) and (e), 16(1), 25(1) and (3), 26(3) and 47(2) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 .\nThe Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has had regard to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency in accordance with Article 47(3) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.\nThere has been consultation, as 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 , during the preparation and evaluation of the following Regulations.",
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      "text": "S.I. 1991/762 (N.I.7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1663 (N.I.12), paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c.23 and S.R. Nos. 482 and 505"
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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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