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  "title": "The Heads of Sheep and Goats Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "short_title": "Heads of Sheep and Goats 1996",
  "long_title": "This Order requires that heads removed from the carcases of sheep or goats shall be consigned to certain specified premises and disposed of as if they were specified bovine material (Article 4). To this end various provisions of the Specified Bovine Material (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 are applied in relation to the heads of sheep and goats as they apply to specified bovine material (Article 4).",
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