{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-sentience-act-2022/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-sentience-act-2022/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/22",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-sentience-act-2022",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Information",
  "text": "(1) In Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 (definition of public records), in Part 1 of the table, in the second column, after the entry relating to Agricultural Wages Committees insert—\n“\nThe Animal Sentience Committee.\n”\n(2) In Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (public authorities to which that Act applies) at the appropriate place insert—\n“The Animal Sentience Committee.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 22.5.2023 by S.I. 2023/563, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/22/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:03.113083+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."
}