{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-northern-ireland-order-1981/schedule-3/paragraph-7",
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  "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": "schedule/3/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Without prejudice to paragraph 5, the Department may—\n(a) cause to be slaughtered any imported animals or poultry; and\n(b) cause to be destroyed any imported eggs;\nin a quarantine station which appear to the Department to have been in any way exposed to the infection of—\n(i) any disease not endemic in Northern Ireland, not being a disease specified in Part III or IV of Schedule 1; or\n(ii) any other disease not being a disease specified in Part III or IV of Schedule 1 which in the opinion of the Department would constitute a hazard to the health of animals or poultry in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1986/253"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1115/schedule/3/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}