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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-wild-animals-in-travelling-circuses-england-regulations-2012/schedule/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111527832",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Condition 7: Responsibility of the operator to promote the welfare of licensed animals",
  "text": "(1) The operator must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the needs of a licensed animal are met to the extent required by good practice.\n(2) For the purposes of this Condition, a licensed animal’s needs shall be taken to include—\n(a) its need for a suitable environment;\n(b) its need for a suitable diet;\n(c) its need to be able to exhibit normal patterns of behaviour;\n(d) any need it has to be housed with, or apart from, other animals; and\n(e) its need to be protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "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."
}