{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-animals-environment-and-food-etc-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2012/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-animals-environment-and-food-etc-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2012/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2897",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-animals-environment-and-food-etc-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2012",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 2008",
  "text": "In the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 2008 , in article 11 (enforcement)—\n(a) re-number the existing provision as paragraph (1); and\n(b) after that provision add—\n“(2) The Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under section 73 of the Animal Health Act 1981 relating to this Order.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/944, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2897/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:57.013347+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."
}