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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-england-order-2006/article-55A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-england-order-2006/article-55A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (England) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-england-order-2006",
  "path": "article/55A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55A",
  "heading": "Contingency plans and exercises",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must carry out alert exercises in real time ..., either—\n(a) on two occasions within a five-year period following the date of the last confirmed case, the first of which must occur no later than three years after the approval of the plan; or\n(b) in the case of a major epizootic disease outbreak which was successfully controlled and eradicated, once during the five-year period following the conclusion of that outbreak.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 55A inserted (21.12.2021) by The Exotic Animal Disease (Amendment) (England) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1472), arts. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 55A(1) omitted (20.12.2023) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1415), arts. 1(1), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/182/article/55A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:00.107461+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."
}