{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-44.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/44",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Records and returns",
  "text": "The Department may by order require any owner of , or person in charge of, animals or poultry and any person engaged in the purchase, sale, dispatch, transit or delivery of animals, poultry or the products of animals or poultry—\n(a) to keep such records and retain such documents as may be specified in the order; and\n(b) to furnish to the Department such information and returns as may be so specified; and\n(c) to permit an inspector to inspect and take extracts from such records and documents.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 44 inserted (12.3.2010) by Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 1), ss. 17, 22(1); S.R. 2010/70, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1115/article/44",
    "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."
}