{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1729",
  "legislation_title": "The Disease Control (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) This Order shall be enforced by the local authority.\n(2) The Secretary of State may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or any particular case, that an enforcement duty imposed on a local authority under this regulation shall be discharged by the Secretary of State and not by the local authority.\n(3) Where the Secretary of State makes a direction under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under section 73 of the Animal Health Act 1981 relating to this Order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 22(3) added (24.12.2012) by The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2897), arts. 1(1), 5(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1729/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:16:24.578901+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."
}