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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1991-3254/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1991-3254/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1991/3254",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EEC) no 3254/91 of 4 November 1991 prohibiting the use of leghold traps in the Community and the introduction into the Community of pelts and manufactured goods of certain wild animal species originating in countries which catch them by means of leghold traps or trapping methods which do not meet international humane trapping standards",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1991-3254",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation: ‘leghold trap’: means a device designed to restrain or capture an animal by means of jaws which close tightly upon one or more of the animal's limbs, thereby preventing withdrawal of the limb or limbs from the trap.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1991/3254/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:01:44.487661+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."
}