{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-amendment-order-2007/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-amendment-order-2007/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2476",
  "legislation_title": "The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-amendment-order-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "animals, england\nanimal health\nMade 23rd August 2007\nComing into force 24th August 2007\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981. c. 22. Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141) and were then transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2476/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:44:53.481572+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."
}