{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-birds-poultry-and-hatching-eggs-order-1979/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-birds-poultry-and-hatching-eggs-order-1979/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1702",
  "legislation_title": "The Importation of Birds, Poultry and Hatching Eggs Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/importation-of-birds-poultry-and-hatching-eggs-order-1979",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POULTRY\nMade 17th December 1979\nLaid before Parliament 31st December 1979\nComing into Operation 1st February 1980\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 24, 45, 84(2) and (3) and 85(1) of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950 and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 24 was amended by section 1 of the Diseases of Animals Act 1975 (c. 40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "By the Transfer and Functions (Animal Health) Order 1955 (S.I. 1955/958) and the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1702/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:08:02.788260+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."
}