{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/litter-animal-droppings-order-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/litter-animal-droppings-order-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/961",
  "legislation_title": "The Litter (Animal Droppings) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/litter-animal-droppings-order-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order is made under section 86(14) and (15) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (“the Act”), which enables the Secretary of State to apply the provisions ofPart IV of the Act (Litter, Etc.) which apply to refuse to anydescription of animal droppings in all or any prescribed circumstances.The Order provides that Part IV of the Act will apply to dog faeces onthe kinds of land prescribed in article 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/961/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:46.194702+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."
}