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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-31",
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  "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": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations shall be enforced by the Department.\n(2) On an inspection of any food intended for human consumption an official veterinary surgeon may certify that the food fails to comply with these Regulations.\n(3) Where any food is certified as mentioned in paragraph (2) it may be treated for the purposes of Article 8 of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 as failing to comply with food safety requirements.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 in operation at 1.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/78",
      "affecting_title": "Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/78",
      "affecting_title": "Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/552/regulation/31",
    "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."
}