{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-horses-protection-order-1969/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-horses-protection-order-1969/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1969/1784",
  "legislation_title": "The Export of Horses (Protection) Order 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-horses-protection-order-1969",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDISEASES OF ANIMALS\nMade 12th December 1969\nComing into Operation\nArticles 3, 4, 5, 6, 11(1), 11(2), 11(4), 14(2)(a)(ii) and 14(2)(b) 1st June 1970\nRemainder 1st January 1970\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 20, 23 and 85 of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950, as read with the Transfer of Functions (Animal Health) Order 1955, as extended to horses by the Diseases of Animals (Extension of Definitions) Order 1952 and as adapted to air transport by section 11 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954, and by section 2 of the Ponies Act 1969, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For change of title of the Minister see S I 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(1955 I, p. 1184)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "(1952 I, p. 128)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/1784/introduction",
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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."
}