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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-goods-and-services-public-bodiesmeat-hygiene-order-1995/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2626",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies)(Meat Hygiene) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-goods-and-services-public-bodiesmeat-hygiene-order-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of public body",
  "text": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England, and the Secretary of State in relation to Scotland and Wales, being persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be public bodies for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 to the extent that the functions exercised by those persons relate to inspections of meat for the purposes of hygiene or of animals for the purposes of welfare.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2626/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:00:24.366709+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."
}