{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-food-and-drugs-act-1875/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/63",
  "legislation_title": "Sale of Food and Drugs Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-food-and-drugs-act-1875",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation of words",
  "text": "The term “food ” shall include every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water :\nThe term “drug ” shall include medicine for internal or external use:\nThe term “county ” shall include every county, riding, and division, as well as every county of a city or town not being a borough:\nThe term “justices ” shall include any police and stipendiary magistrate invested with the powers of a justice of the peace in England, and any divisional justices in Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/63/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:14.073173+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."
}