{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oilseeds-producers-support-system-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oilseeds-producers-support-system-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/695",
  "legislation_title": "The Oilseeds Producers (Support System) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oilseeds-producers-support-system-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“authorised officer” means any person (whether or not an officer of that authority) who is authorised by the competent authority, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under these Regulations;\n“the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EEC) No 615/92 laying down detailed rules for a support system for producers of soya beans, rape seed, colza seed and sunflower seed;\n“the competent authority”—\n(a) in relation to England, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n(b) in relation to Scotland or Wales, means the Secretary of State;\n“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No 3766/91 establishing a support system for producers of soya beans, rape seed and colza seed and sunflower seed;\n“oilseeds” means soya beans, rape seed, colza seed and sunflower seed;\n“specified control measure” means any check, test, verification, inspection, investigation, control or other operation a Member State is required to carry out under Article 4(5) or 9 of the Council Regulation or Article 4, 6(2), 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 or 17 of the Commission Regulation.\n(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations have, insofar as the context admits, the same meanings as in the Council Regulation and the Commission Regulation.\n(3) In these Regulations any reference to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L67, 12.3.92, p.11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L356, 24.12.91, p.17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/9",
      "affecting_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/695/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:19.722870+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."
}