{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-scotland-order-2006/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-scotland-order-2006/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-scotland-order-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 6th February 2006\nComing into force 23rd February 2006\nThe Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 1, 7(1), 8(1), 13, 15(3), 15(4), 17(1), 23, 25, 26, 28, 34(7), 83(2), 87(2) and 87(5) of the Animal Health Act 1981 , and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22, amended by the Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3293). The functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) are now exercisable by the Scottish Ministers. They were transferred, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/44/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:21:43.663517+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."
}