{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2750",
  "legislation_title": "The Mink (Keeping) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS\nMade 17th November 1997\nComing into force 1st January 1998\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 2(c) of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932, as applied in relation to mink by the Mink Keeping Order 1992, and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (S.) (2.7.2012) by The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/174), art. 1(1), sch. 2 (with art. 5; S.S.I. 2012/175, art. 3); and revoked (E.) (6.4.2015) by The Mink and Coypus (Revocations) (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/613), reg. 1(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1932 c. 12; section 11 (interpretation) was amended by S.I. 1992/3302."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3324."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of Article 3(1) of, and paragraph 5(a) of Schedule 2 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2750/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:42:41.699663+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."
}