{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-and-welfare-act-1984/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-and-welfare-act-1984/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/40",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-and-welfare-act-1984",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Except for—\n(a) sections 13 to 15, and\n(b) section 16 and Schedules 1 and 2 so far as relating to the Medicines Act 1968,\nthis Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 17 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 17(3) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 17 Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 17(4) repealed (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/731, reg. 28(1), Sch. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 17(3) fully exercised: 16. 8. 1985 appointed by S.I. 1985/1267, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/40/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:39.996255+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."
}