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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-notification-and-control-measures-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-order-2021/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2021/130",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Health (Notification and Control Measures) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-notification-and-control-measures-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-order-2021",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Diseases of Poultry (Scotland) Order 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Diseases of Poultry (Scotland) Order 2003 is amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) After article 3 (interpretation) insert—\n“Notification procedures to be taken where infection with avian mycoplasmosis or avian chlamydiosis is suspected\n3A. A person who—\n(a) analyses a sample taken from a bird or carcase, and\n(b) reasonably suspects that the bird or carcase is infected with avian mycoplasmosis (infection with Mycoplasma gallisepticum and M. meleagridis) or avian chlamydiosis,\nmust immediately inform an authorised veterinary inspector of that suspicion.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2003/354."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 3 was relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2013/173."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/130/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:40.349918+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."
}