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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/393",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal By-Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals\nAnimal Health\nMade 18th November 2015\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 20th November 2015\nComing into force 1st January 2016\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68 (“the 1972 Act”). Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) (“the 1998 Act”), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3) (which was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) (“the 2006 Act”), section 27(4)). Section 2(2) was also amended by the 2006 Act, section 27(1)(a) and by the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) (“the 2008 Act”), Schedule, Part 1. The functions conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under the 1972 Act, section 2(2), insofar as exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of the 1998 Act, section 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/393/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:53.446907+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."
}