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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-and-welfare-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-2-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-and-welfare-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-2-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides that the appointed day for the coming into force of section 20(1) to (3) of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 11) (“the Act”) is 30th April 2007. These subsections provide for various offences in relation to the mutilation of animals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/257/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:13:27.997420+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."
}