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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/novel-foods-england-regulations-2018/schedule-3/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/novel-foods-england-regulations-2018/schedule-3/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Novel Foods (England) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/novel-foods-england-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Completion certificates",
  "text": "(1) Where, after service of a stop notice, the food authority is satisfied that the person has taken the steps specified in the notice, the food authority must issue a certificate to that effect (a “completion certificate”).\n(2) The stop notice ceases to have effect on the issue of a completion certificate.\n(3) The person on whom the stop notice is served may at any time apply for a completion certificate.\n(4) The food authority must make a decision as to whether to issue a completion certificate within 14 days of such an application.\n(5) The person on whom the stop notice was served may appeal against a decision not to issue a completion certificate on the grounds that—\n(a) the decision was based on an error of fact;\n(b) the decision was wrong in law;\n(c) the decision was unfair or unreasonable.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/154/schedule/3/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:02:25.599257+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."
}