{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-inspection-regulations-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2236",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat Inspection Regulations 1987",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If an abscess is found in the carcase or in any organ of any swine, or if an inspector has reason to suspect the presence of any such abscess, he shall require the carcase to be split through the spinal column if it has not already been so split and shall examine in detail such of the following lymph nodes as he has not already so examined: superficial inguinal, supramammary, cervical, prepectoral, prescapular, presternal, sublumbar, iliac, precrural and, if he considers it necessary, the popliteal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2495",
      "affecting_title": "The Meat Inspection (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/2237",
      "affecting_title": "The Fresh Meat Export (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1987"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2236/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:14:07.096521+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."
}