{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-extension-of-definitions-order-1971/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-extension-of-definitions-order-1971/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/531",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Animals (Extension of Definitions) Order 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-extension-of-definitions-order-1971",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "“Disease” to include brucellosis",
  "text": "(1) For all the purposes of the Act, except section 8 (which requires outbreaks of disease to be reported to the police and affected animals to be isolated), the definition of the expression “disease”in section 84(3)(a) of the Act is hereby extended to include brucellosis.\n(2) Nothing in this order affects the operation of the Epizootic Abortion Order of 1922.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (S.) (1.4.2014) by The Brucellosis (Scotland) Amendment Order 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/63), arts. 1, 3; and revoked (E.) (1.1.2018) by The Animal Health (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1186), arts. 1(1), 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at made date"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/531/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:47:14.559782+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."
}