{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/427",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Food enforcement responsibilities and competent authority status",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the responsibility of each district council to execute and enforce the Import Provisions in its district in relation to food.\n(2) District Councils are designated as the competent authorities for the purposes of the provisions of Regulation 2019/1793 in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant food law.\n(3) Where a district council is designated as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (2) the designation shall extend to its district only.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(2) substituted (14.12.2019) by virtue of The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/218), regs. 1, 20(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 23(4) omitted (14.12.2019) by virtue of The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/218), regs. 1, 20(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in operation at 25.1.2010, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/427/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:16.841003+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."
}