{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1968/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1968/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/34",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1968",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Extension of classes of operations in which anaesthetics must be used.",
  "text": "The Ministers may, after consultation with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and with such persons appearing to the Ministers to represent any other interests concerned as the Ministers consider appropriate, by order provide that paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 1 to the Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1954 (which exempt certain minor operations from the requirement to use anaesthetics imposed by that Act) shall not permit the performance, either in any circumstances or in such circumstances as may be specified in the order, of such operations as may be so specified.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 repealed (E.W.) (27.3.2007 for W. and 6.4.2007 for E. except for the repeals of ss. 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 1.10.2007 for E. and 24.10.2007 for W. in so far as not already in force) by Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c. 45), s. 68(3), Sch. 4 (with ss. 1(2), 58(1), 59, 60); S.I. 2007/499, art. 2(2)(m); S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(m); S.I. 2007/2711, art. 2(b)(i) (with art. 3); S.I. 2007/3065, art. 2(b)(i) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1954 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5: power to transfer functions conferred (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141 arts. 2(1)(5), 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 5: Certain functions transferred (27.3.2002) by The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), art. 3(6) (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/34/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:16.339751+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."
}