{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-order-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-order-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3002",
  "legislation_title": "The Mink Keeping Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS\nApproved by both Houses of ParliamentMade 17th November 1997\nLaid before Parliament 19th 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, being satisfied with respect to the non-indigenous mammalian species 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 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; section 11 (interpretation) was amended by S.I. 1992/3302."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "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 Function (Wales) Order 1969 (S.I. 1969/388)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3002/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:24.938439+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."
}