{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2246",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 1st October 1991\nComing into force 6th November 1991\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotlandand the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 7(1), 8(1), 15(4), 32(2), 35(1) and (1A), 36(5)(a), 72, 83(2), 87(2) and (5) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981 and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 11 of that Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22; see section 86(1) for definitions of “the Minister” and “the Ministers”; sections 1, 7(1), 8(1), 72, 83(2), 86(1), 87(2) and (5) and 88(2) were applied to bovine spongiform encephalopathy by the Zoonoses Order 1988(S.I. 1988/2264)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2246/introduction",
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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."
}