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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-act-northern-ireland-2010/section-22",
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  "legislation": "nia/2010/1",
  "legislation_title": "Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-act-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Act, except this section and section 23, shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development may by order appoint.\n(2) An order made under subsection (1) may contain such transitional provisions as appear to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into operation by the order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 22(1) power fully exercised: 12.3.2010 appointed by S.R. 2010/70, art. 2 (with transitional provision in art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2010/1/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:12.689061+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."
}