{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/1145",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Meat (Water Content) Regulations 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD\nMade 30th July 1984\nLaid before Parliament 8th August 1984\nComing into Operation 1st September 1984\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Social Services and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 123A of the Food and Drugs Act 1955, and now vested in them and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read with section 40 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "section 123A was inserted by paragraph 3(2)(a) of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State for Social Services by virtue of S.I. 1968/1699 and in the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1145/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:34:50.805812+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."
}