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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision for the protection of animals used for experimental or other scientific purposes.\n[20th May 1986]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded (23.1.1995) by S.I. 1994/3249, art. 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s.30(3); Act wholly in force at 1.1.1990."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act extends to Northern Ireland but the operation of s. 29 is limited by application as mentioned in s. 29(2)"
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  "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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