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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1995/schedule-10/part-V/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1995/schedule-10/part-V/paragraph-2.json",
  "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/V/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where an inspector or OVS has reason to suspect that a suppurative condition exists in the carcase of any sheep or lamb he shall—\n(a) examine by palpation as well as by observation such of the lymph nodes as are readily accessible; and\n(b) in the case of a sheep, examine in detail such of the following lymph nodes as he has not already so examined; prescapular, superficial inguinal, precrural; and, in the case of a lamb, examine in detail such lymph nodes if he has found evidence of disease in the course of visual examination or palpation.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/539/schedule/10/part/V/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}