{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/destructive-imported-animals-act-1932/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/destructive-imported-animals-act-1932/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/22-23/12",
  "legislation_title": "Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/destructive-imported-animals-act-1932",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Saving in respect of animals kept for exhibition, &c.",
  "text": "(1) A person who desires to keep musk rats for exhibition, or for purposes of scientific research or other exceptional purposes, may apply to the appropriate department, and the department at their discretion may grant to him a special licence (which may be revoked by them at any time) authorising him to import and keep such limited number of musk rats, in such manner and upon such conditions as may be specified in the licence.\n(2) A special licence may be granted under this section and shall have effect according to its tenor notwithstanding that the acts authorised by it are for the time being prohibited by an order made under section one of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Certain functions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food transferred by S.I. 1978/272, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/22-23/12/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:06.294236+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."
}