{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2023/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2023/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1350",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals (Penalty Notices) (England) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-penalty-notices-england-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Animals (Penalty Notices) Act 2022;\n“port health authority” means—\n(a) in relation to the London port health district, the Common Council of the City of London; or\n(b) in relation to any other port health district, the port health authority for that district;\n“port health district” means—\n(a) a port health district constituted by order under section 2(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984;\n(b) the London port health district, within the meaning given by section 7(1) of that Act;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1350/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:16.874268+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."
}