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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1995/schedule-10/part-IV/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/10/part/IV/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If an abscess is found in the carcase or in any organ of any swine, or if an inspector or OVS has reason to suspect the presence of any such abscess, he shall require the carcase to be split through the spinal column if it has not already been so split and shall examine in detail such of the following lymph nodes as he has not already so examined; superficial inguinal, supramammary, cervical, prepectoral, prescapular, presternal, sublumbar, iliac, precrural and, if he considers it necessary, the popliteal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/539/schedule/10/part/IV/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:14:57.354475+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."
}