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  "title": "Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "short_title": "Animals (Records) 1997",
  "long_title": "This Order revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Movement of Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1980 (“the 1980 Order”) so as to implement the record keeping requirements in respect of bovine animals, sheep and goats of Council Directive 92/102/EEC on the identification and registration of animals (O.J. No. L355, 5.12.92, p. 32).",
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