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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-meat-water-content-regulations-1984/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These regulations which come into operation on 1st September 1984 (regulation 1) supersede the Poultry Meat (Water Content) Regulations 1982 and supplement the provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2967/76, laying down common standards for the water content of frozen and deep-frozen chickens, hens and cocks, and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2785/80, introducing detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2967/76. In addition the regulations implement in part article 5 of Council Directive No 83/643/EEC on the facilitation of physical inspections and administrative formalities in respect of carriage of goods between Member States.\nThe regulations, which provide for the enforcement of articles 1 and 2 of the Council Regulation and of articles 2 and 4 of the Commission Regulation—\n(a) designate the authorities which are to enforce the Community Regulations (regulation 3);\n(b) specify the powers of authorised officers of enforcement authorities (regulation 4);\n(c) require poultry carcases to be marked so as to identify the slaughterhouse from which they originate (regulation 5);\n(d) allow importers to require the inspection of imported poultry carcases out of business hours and enforcement authorities to make reasonable charges for providing such services (regulation 6);\n(e) require a notice of intended prosecution to be served on proposed defendants in certain cases (regulation 7);\n(f) prescribe procedures for analysis and counter-analysis (regulations 8 and 9);\n(g) specify the method of analysis and counter-analysis (regulation 10);\n(h) prescribe offences and penalties (regulation 11);\n(i) require enforcement authorities to provide the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with such information as he may require (regulation 12); and\n(j) make ancillary provisions (regulations 13–17).\nThese regulations apply to England and Wales only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1145/note",
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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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