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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/endangered-species-import-and-export-act-1976-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/endangered-species-import-and-export-act-1976-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2684",
  "legislation_title": "The Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act 1976 (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/endangered-species-import-and-export-act-1976-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nMade 19th October 1996\nLaid before Parliament 25th October 1996\nComing into force\nRegulations 1 to 6 16th November 1996\nRegulation 7 17th November 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, being the Minister designated for the purposes of that subsection in relation to the regulation and control, in the interests of conservation, of the import, export, landing, keeping, transportation and commercial display of, and trade in and disposal of, fauna and flora (including their parts and derivatives), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/956."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2684/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:24.826004+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."
}