{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1970/20",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-provisions-act-northern-ireland-1970",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Prohibition of exposure for sale, etc., of cattle recently dehorned.",
  "text": "(1) Cattle bearing unhealed wounds which appear to have resulted from the removal of their horns shall not be—\n(a) exposed for sale in any market or fair or sale-yard or other public or private place where animals are commonly offered or exposed for sale; or\n(b) brought to any slaughter-house.\n(2) If subsection (1) is contravened with respect to any cattle, the owner of the cattle shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.\n(3) In this section—\n“cattle” means bulls, cows, bullocks, heifers, calves, steers or oxen;\n“slaughter-house” means any building, premises or place used in connection with the business of killing animals for the purpose of the flesh being used for human consumption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1970/20/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:34.311405+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."
}