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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exotic-disease-amendment-england-order-2023/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exotic-disease-amendment-england-order-2023/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1415",
  "legislation_title": "The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exotic-disease-amendment-england-order-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals, England\nAnimal Health\nMade 19th December 2023\nComing into force 20th December 2023\nThe Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 7(1) and (2), 8(1), 15(5), 17(1), 23, 25, 28, 32(2), 35(1) and (3), 83(2), 87(2) and (5)(a) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22) is amended by section 34(2) of the Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. The expression “the Ministers” is defined in section 86(1)(c). These powers were previously exercisable by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and were transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 2002/794."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1415/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:36:34.124329+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."
}