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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994/regulation-19",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3082",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-products-hygiene-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Supervision and enforcement",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, a food authority shall be responsible in its area for the supervision of establishments which fall within these Regulations (and shall accordingly be responsible through authorised officers for checks under Part IV of Schedule 2) and shall be responsible also for enforcing and executing these Regulations in relation to any such establishments.\n(2) On 1st April 1995 the responsibilities mentioned in paragraph (1) above are transferred to the Minister, so far as they relate to combined premises.\n(3) Accordingly, in these Regulations “enforcement authority”, in relation to any premises, means the authority that has those responsibilities by virtue of paragraph (1) or (2) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/2198",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) (Wales) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/225",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/171",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat (Enhanced Enforcement Powers) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3082/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:21:43.011400+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."
}