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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/schedule-3",
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  "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": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "DEFINITION OF RELEVANT FOOD LAW",
  "text": "“relevant food law” means —\n(a)food law in so far as it applies in relation to food, except in so far as it involves —\n(i)the regulation of residues of veterinary medicines and other substances under the Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998,\n(ii)the regulation of residues of pesticides under the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008,\n(iii)...\n(iv)the application of the rules on quality schemes which provide the basis for the identification and protection of names and terms that indicate or describe agricultural products with value-adding characteristics laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs.\n(v)the regulation of organic products under the Organic Products Regulations 2009 ,\n(vi)the regulation of beef and veal labelling under the Beef and Veal Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010,\n(vii)...\n(viii)the matters regulated under Schedule 2 to the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 in so far as that Schedule applies in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption, together with the matters covered under point 2 of Part I and point 2 of Part II of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation 999/2001 as read with Commission Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes in so far as those points apply in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption; and\n(ix)the regulation of spirit drinks under the Spirit Drinks Regulations 2008;\n(b)food law in so far as it applies in relation to materials and articles in contact with food; and\n(c)food law in so far as it involves the regulation of primary production and those associated operations listed in paragraph 1 of Part AI of Annex I to Regulation 852/2004 under the Food Hygiene Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 omitted (1.1.2019) by virtue of The Quality Schemes (Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1275), regs. 1, 28(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.1.2019) by The Quality Schemes (Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1275), regs. 1, 28(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 substituted (11.2.2019) by The Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/5), regs. 1(1), 21(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 deleted by S.R. 2011/438, Sch. 5 para. 3 (as inserted (31.7.2014) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/196), regs. 1, 3(13))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 substituted (3.1.2019) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/213), regs. 1, 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 in operation at 25.1.2010, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1998 No.237, amended by S.R. 2005 No. 451 and S.R. 2006 No. 263"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2008 No. 433"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/842"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L256, 29.9.2009, p.35"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/3206"
    }
  ],
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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."
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