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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-amendment-order-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1066",
  "legislation_title": "The Disease Control (England) (Amendment) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-amendment-order-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2003/1729 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nAnimals, England\nAnimal Health\nMade 9th April 2008\nComing into force 12th May 2008\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 7, and 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981, makes the following Order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "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)."
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1066/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."
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