{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-commencement-order-1986/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-commencement-order-1986/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/2088",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (Commencement) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-scientific-procedures-act-commencement-order-1986",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order, which does not extend to Northern Ireland, brings into force on 1st January 1987 the whole of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 apart from sections 7 and 10(3) and Schedule 2 (which relates to designated breeding and supplying establishments), and section 29 (which concerns the Act's application to Northern Ireland).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/2088/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:36:55.667644+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."
}