{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3184",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Compensation Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 18th December 1996\nLaid before Parliament 18th December 1996\nComing into force 24th January 1997\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 32(3) of the Animal Health Act 1981, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Treasury in accordance with the said section 32(3), and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 34(7) of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:–",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.) (19.4.2002) by The TSE (England) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/843), reg. 1, Sch. 9 Pt. I; and Order revoked (S.) (19.6.2002) by The TSE (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. 2002/255), reg. 1(1), sch. 9 Pt. I (with regs. 2, 102, sch. 9 Pt. II)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22; see section 86(1) for definitions of “the Minister” and “the Ministers”. Section 32 was applied to bovine spongiform encephalopathy by S.I. 1991/2246."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3184/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:16.203728+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."
}