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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1729",
  "legislation_title": "The Disease Control (England) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disease-control-england-order-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS, ENGLAND\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 10th July 2003\nComing into force 1st August 2003\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 1, 7, 8(1) and 83 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 further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794)."
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1729/introduction",
    "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."
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