{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-amendment-england-no-8-order-2001/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-amendment-england-no-8-order-2001/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2238",
  "legislation_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Amendment) (England) (No. 8) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-amendment-england-no-8-order-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/1950, as amended).\nArticles 24 and 34A (animals on common land) are replaced so as to provide that the owner or person in charge of any animal on common or unenclosed land shall not move the animal from that land except under the authority of a licence issued by the Minister or where instructed to do so by a notice issued by a veterinary inspector.\nArticles 27 and 37C (shearing or dipping of sheep) are also replaced. The new articles prohibit the shearing or dipping of sheep in an infected and controlled area respectively except in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Minister. The occupier of any premises or his employee may shear or dip sheep kept on those premises. “Shearing” is defined to include clipping and dagging and “dipping” is defined to include the showering and jetting of sheep with dip,\nA Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared in respect of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2238/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:45:44.898447+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."
}