{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/22",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Health Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Slaughter in certain diseases.",
  "text": "Schedule 3 to this Act has effect as to the slaughter of animals in relation to—\n(a) cattle plague;\n(b) pleuro-pneumonia;\n(c) foot-and-mouth disease;\n(d) swine-fever; and\n(e) diseases of poultry.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 31(d) restricted (14.8.2014) by The Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1894), regs. 1(1)(c), 43(2) (with reg. 4(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/22/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:14.497777+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."
}