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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-animal-feeding-stuffs-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-animal-feeding-stuffs-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1261",
  "legislation_title": "The Medicines (Animal Feeding Stuffs) (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medicines-animal-feeding-stuffs-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MEDICINES\nMade 1st May 1996\nLaid before Parliament 10th May 1996\nComing into force 1st June 1996\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with agriculture in Scotland and in Wales and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 117(2) and (3) of the Medicines Act 1968, and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consulting such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations in accordance with section 129(6) of the said Act, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272, and, in the case of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, by virtue of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), section 40 and Schedule 5, and the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c. 28), section 1(3) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)(b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1261/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."
}