{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-amendment-regulations-1995/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-amendment-regulations-1995/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/732",
  "legislation_title": "The Spirit Drinks (Amendment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spirit-drinks-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FOOD\nMade 13th March 1995\nLaid before Parliament 13th March 1995\nComing into force 3rd April 1995\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State concerned respectively with health in England and food and health in Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 17(2) of the Food Safety Act 1990, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the said Secretaries of State, being Ministers designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the description of and other requirements relating to spirit drinks, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) (as read with section 3(3) of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (save for paragraph (a) thereof)), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 16; section 4(1) contains a definition of “the Ministers” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1327."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1993 c. 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/732/introduction",
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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."
}