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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2246",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Notification of disease in bovine animals",
  "text": "(1) A person who has in his possession or under his charge an affected or a suspected animal, or the carcase of such an animal, and any veterinary surgeon or other person who, in the course of his duties, examines or inspects any such animal or carcase shall, with all practicable speed, notify the fact to the Divisional Veterinary Officer.\n(2) A person who has in his possession or under his charge on any premises an affected or a suspected animal, or the carcase of such an animal, shall detain it on the premises until it has been examined by a veterinary inspector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2627",
      "affecting_title": "The Spongiform Encephalopathy (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health Orders (Divisional Veterinary Manager Amendment) Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health Orders (Divisional Veterinary Manager Amendment) Order 1995"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2246/article/5",
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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."
}