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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/schedule-3A/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/schedule-3A/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/22",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Health Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/3A/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No order is made under paragraph 6 unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.\n(2) But where the Scottish Ministers are of the opinion that there exists—\n(a) an outbreak of a disease of animals not specified in or by virtue of paragraphs 1 to 6; or\n(b) some other emergency relating to a disease of animals,\nsub-paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to the making of an order under paragraph 6.\n(3) Where sub-paragraph (2) applies, an order made accordingly (an “emergency order”)—\n(a) is to be laid before the Scottish Parliament; and\n(b) ceases to have effect at the expiry of a period of 28 days beginning with the date on which it was made unless, before the expiry of that period, the order has been approved by a resolution of the Parliament.\n(4) However, paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (3) does not apply in relation to an order which—\n(a) revokes (wholly or partly) an emergency order; and\n(b) does nothing else, or nothing else except make provision incidental or supplementary to the revocation.\n(5) In reckoning for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(b) any period of 28 days, no account is to be taken of any period during which the Scottish Parliament is—\n(a) dissolved; or\n(b) in recess for more than 4 days.\n(6) Sub-paragraph (3)(b) is without prejudice to anything previously done by reference to an emergency order or to the making of a new emergency order.\n(7) An emergency order must include a description of the emergency in relation to which the order is made.\n(8) In sub-paragraph (2), “disease” is not restricted by its definition in this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (S.) (6.10.2006) by Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 11), ss. 1(2), 55(1) (with s. 54); S.S.I. 2006/482, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}