{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hares-control-of-importation-order-1965/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hares-control-of-importation-order-1965/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1965/2040",
  "legislation_title": "The Hares (Control of Importation) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hares-control-of-importation-order-1965",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order no person shall land in Great Britain or bring into England through the tunnel system as defined in the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (1987 c. 53) any live hare brought from any country outside Great Britain except the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n(2) The Minister may be licence authorise the landing in Great Britain or the bringing into England through the tunnel system as defined in the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (1987 c. 53) of any live hares the importation of which would otherwise be unlawful, if in special circumstances he thinks it expedient so to do, subject to such conditions for the purpose of preventing the introduction of disease and subject to such other conditions (if any) as are specified in the licence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.) (1.7.2015) by The Animals, Water and Sea Fisheries (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/751), arts. 1(1), 2(a); and Order revoked (S.) (1.1.2024) by The Importation of Animals and Related Products (Miscellaneous Amendment and Revocation) (Scotland) Order 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/391), arts. 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) inserted (1.12.1990) by The Channel Tunnel (Amendment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Import Legislation) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/2371), art. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) inserted (1.12.1990) by The Channel Tunnel (Amendment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Import Legislation) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/2371), art. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 10.12.1965, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/2040/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:50:56.910236+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."
}