{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-products-control-of-personal-importation-scotland-order-2025/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-products-control-of-personal-importation-scotland-order-2025/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/230",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Products (Control of Personal Importation) (Scotland) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-products-control-of-personal-importation-scotland-order-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nFOOD\nMade 20th August 2025\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 22nd August 2025\nComing into force 23rd August 2025\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 10 of the Animal Health Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. Section 10 was amended by S.I. 1990/2371 and S.I. 1993/1813. The power to make Orders under this section was originally conferred on “the Ministers” as defined in section 86(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981. The functions of the Ministers were, in so far as within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/230/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:34:39.695208+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."
}