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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-sentience-act-2022-commencement-regulations-2023/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/563",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 (Commencement) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-sentience-act-2022-commencement-regulations-2023",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force the remaining provisions of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 (c. 22) (“the Act”) that did not come into force on the day on which the Act was passed. Those provisions (sections 1 to 5 of the Act) come into force on 22nd May 2023.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/563/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:45:03.973945+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."
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