{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-extension-of-definitions-order-1971/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-extension-of-definitions-order-1971/introduction.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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDISEASES OF ANIMALS\nMade 26th March 1971\nComing into Operation 26th March 1971\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State, acting in relation to Scotland, in pursuance of section 84(3)(a) of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950, as read with the Transfer of Functions (Animal Health) Order 1955, and of all their other enabling powers, hereby order as follows:—",
  "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": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For change of title of the Minister S.I. 1955/554 see (1955 I, p. 1200)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/531/introduction",
    "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."
}