{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-animals-order-1977/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-animals-order-1977/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/944",
  "legislation_title": "The Importation of Animals Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-animals-order-1977",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDISEASES OF ANIMALS\nMade 25th May 1977\nLaid before Parliament 10th June 1977\nComing into Operation 1st July 1977\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 20(x), 23(c) and 85(1) of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950, and now vested in them, and of the power conferred on them by section 24 of the said Act, as that Act is amended and extended by the Diseases of Animals Act 1975, and of all their other enabling powers, hereby order as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By the Transfer of Functions (Animal Health) Order 1955 (S.I. 1955/958(1955 I, p. 1184))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/944/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:58:13.958726+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."
}