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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-seizure-order-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1685",
  "legislation_title": "The Diseases of Animals (Seizure) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-seizure-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Extension of powers of seizure",
  "text": "(1) An inspector or veterinary inspector shall have power to seize anything (other than a live animal) whether animate or inanimate, by or by means of which it appears to him that a disease to which section 35(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 applies might be carried or transmitted.\n(2) An inspector or veterinary inspector exercising powers under this Order shall dispose of the thing seized by destruction, burial, treatment or such other method of disposal as he thinks expedient to prevent the spread of disease.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1685/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:54:14.739470+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."
}