{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1523",
  "legislation_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD\nMade 20th August 1987\nLaid before Parliament 11th September 1987\nComing into force 2nd October 1987\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State being Ministers designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to materials and articles in contact with food or drink or intended for such contact, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/2141."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with section 40 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and S.I. 1984/447, and, as regards Scotland, with sections 289F and 289G of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), as inserted by section 54 of the Act of 1982, and with S.I. 1984/526."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1523/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}