{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-sales-and-lairs-amendment-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-sales-and-lairs-amendment-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3265",
  "legislation_title": "The Markets, Sales and Lairs (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/markets-sales-and-lairs-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 30th December 1996\nComing into force 23rd January 1997\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 on them by section 1 of the Animal Health Act 1981, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.) (1.8.2003) by The Animal Gatherings (England) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1723), arts. 1, 11(d); and revoked (W.) (1.8.2003) by The Animal Gatherings (Wales) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1967), arts. 1, 11(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. See section 86(1)(c) for a definition of “the Ministers”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3265/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:29.686951+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."
}