{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/22",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Health Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Prevention of suffering.",
  "text": "(1) The Ministers may make such orders as they think fit for the purpose of protecting animals from unnecessary suffering—\n(a) during inland transit, including transit by an aircraft on a flight beginning and ending in Great Britain; or\n(b) while exposed for sale; or\n(c) while awaiting removal after being exposed for sale.\n(2) The Ministers may make such orders as they think fit—\n(a) for ensuring for animals carried by sea or by air proper ventilation during the passage and on landing; and\n(b) for protecting them from unnecessary suffering during the passage and on landing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 37-39 repealed (S.) (6.10.2006) by Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 11), s. 55(1), Sch. 2 para. 8(2) (with s. 54); S.S.I. 2006/482, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/45",
      "affecting_title": "Animal Welfare Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/22/section/37",
    "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."
}