{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD SAFETY\nMade 29th December 1997\nComing into operation 1st January 1998\nWhereas it appears to the Department of Agriculture, acting as the Department concerned that it is necessary or expedient—\n(a) for the purposes of ensuring that food complies with food safety requirements or in the interests of public health; or\n(b) for the purposes of protecting or promoting the interests of consumers,\nto make the following Regulations;\nNow therefore the said Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 15(1), (2) and (3), 16(1), 18(1), 25, 26(3) and 47(2) of and paragraphs 2(1), 3, 5 and 6(1) of Schedule 1 to the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and after consultation, in accordance with Article 47(3) of that Order, with such organisations that appear to it to be representative of interests substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991 No. 762 (N.I. 7) as amended by S.I. 1996 No. 1633 (N.I. 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/552/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:48.982052+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."
}