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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-scotland-act-1948/section-49",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/45",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-scotland-act-1948",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Provision as to use of poisonous substances.",
  "text": "A person shall not be guilty of an offence under section seven of the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act, 1912, by reason only that he uses poisonous gas, or places a substance which, by evaporation or in contact with moisture, generates poisonous gas, in any hole, burrow or earth for the purpose of killing animals to which section thirty-nine of this Act applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1912 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/45/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:54.133979+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."
}