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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1998/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1376",
  "legislation_title": "The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plastic-materials-and-articles-in-contact-with-food-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) Each authority which is the enforcement authority for the 1987 Regulations shall enforce and execute in its area the provisions of these Regulations.\n(2) Nothing in this regulation shall be taken as authorising in Scotland an enforcement authority to institute proceedings for an offence against these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/898",
      "affecting_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/1647",
      "affecting_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/243",
      "affecting_title": "The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2005"
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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."
}