{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-food-premises-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-food-premises-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/18",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Food Premises) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-food-premises-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Food Premises) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 7th February 1987.\n(2) In these Regulations:\n“the food legislation” means the Food Act 1984 and any regulations or orders made under it;\n“health authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 128 of the National Health Service Act 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2486",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/18/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:34:21.255426+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."
}