{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-35.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/1115",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/35",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Offences under Part III",
  "text": "(1) If any person has in his possession or administers to any animal a substance, in contravention of Article 33, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.\n(2) The court by which a person is convicted of a offence under paragraph (1) with respect to a substance shall order any quantity of it which has been found in his possession to be forfeited and to be—\n(a) destroyed, or\n(b) disposed of by sale to any person who, under this Part, may lawfully have a substance of that kind in his possession, or\n(c) delivered up to the Department,\nas the court thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1115/article/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:51:34.555607+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."
}