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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/216",
  "legislation_title": "Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations further amend the Sweeteners in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the principal Regulations”) by bringing up to date a reference to Directive 95/31/EC on specific purity criteria so as to cover its amendment by Directive 98/66/EC, which changed the specification for isomalt and by bringing up to date references to the principal Regulations in other Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/216/note",
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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."
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