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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3124",
  "legislation_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996",
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  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Protection of officers acting in good faith",
  "text": "(1) An officer of the Minister, the Secretary of State or a local authority is not personally liable in respect of any act done by him in the execution or purported execution of these Regulations within the scope of his employment, if he did that act in the honest belief that his duty under these Regulations required or entitled him to do it.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall be construed as relieving the Minister, the Secretary of State or any local authority from any liability in respect of acts of their officers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
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      "type": "certain functions transferred",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/253",
      "affecting_title": "The National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
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      "affecting_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "disapplied",
      "affecting": "ssi/2002/445",
      "affecting_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/1387",
      "affecting_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "disapplied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1227",
      "affecting_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2002"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3124/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:48.785368+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."
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