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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-and-dairies-scotland-regulations-1990/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2507",
  "legislation_title": "The Milk and Dairies (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milk-and-dairies-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been printed in substitution of the S.I. of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nFOOD\nMILK AND DAIRIES\nMade 7th December 1990\nLaid before Parliament 11th December 1990\nComing into force\nFor the purposes of regulation 3(1) and (7) 1st April 1991\nFor all other purposes 1st January 1991\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4(1), 6(4), 16(1)(d) and (f), 19(1)(b), 26(1) and (2)(d), (e) and (f) and (3) and 48(1) of, and paragraphs 5(1) and (2) and 7(1) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, it appearing to him to be necessary or expedient to do so for the purposes of securing that food complies with food safety requirements and having, in accordance with section 48(4) of the said Act, consulted with such organisations as appear to him to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by these Regulations, and after consultation with the Council on Tribunals in accordance with section 10 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 62; see Schedule 1, paragraph 36A, as added by Schedule 3, paragraph 14(2) to the Food Safety Act 1990."
    }
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