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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-amendment-to-schedule-2-order-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1674",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (Amendment to Schedule 2) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-amendment-to-schedule-2-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of this Order adds references to ferrets and gerbils and to pigs and sheep, if genetically modified, to the list of animals in Schedule 2 to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. That Schedule lists animals which must be obtained from designated breeding or supplying establishments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1674/note",
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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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