{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemption for market operators",
  "text": "The provisions of Articles 3(1) and (2) and 4(1), (2) and (3) shall not apply to a market operator engaged in the purchase or sale of animals in so far as he is engaged in such purchase or sale in the ordinary course of his business as a market operator.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in operation at 1.5.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/172",
      "affecting_title": "Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/172/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:29.261170+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."
}