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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/identification-and-movement-of-sheep-and-goats-order-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/173",
  "legislation_title": "Identification and Movement of Sheep and Goats Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/identification-and-movement-of-sheep-and-goats-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nMade 20th March 1997\nComing into operation 1st August 1997\nThe Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 5(1)(b), 19(e) and (g), 44 and 60(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Art. 17 and S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Art. 23"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/173/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}