{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-order-1992/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-order-1992/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3324",
  "legislation_title": "The Mink Keeping Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-order-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS\nApproved by both Houses of ParliamentMade 13th November 1992\nLaid before Parliament 25th November 1992\nComing into force 1st January 1993\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, being satisfied with respect to the non-indigenous animals which are the subject of this Order that by reason of their destructive habits it is desirable to control the keeping of them and to destroy any which may be at large, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 10(1) of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 and vested in them and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1932 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.I. 1969/388."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3324/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:07:28.594336+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."
}