{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-order-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-order-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/758",
  "legislation_title": "The Brucellosis Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 11th March 1997\nComing into force 1st April 1997\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to England, the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 6, 7(1), 15(4), 28, 32(2), 34(7), 35(3) and 87(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981, 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 a definition of “the Ministers”; for the extension of the Act to brucellosis see S.I. 1971/531 and S.I. 1989/285."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/758/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:25.819398+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."
}