{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-regulations-1975/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-regulations-1975/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/2223",
  "legislation_title": "The Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-regulations-1975",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS\nMade 18th December 1975\nComing into Operation 1st January 1976\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(a), (b) and (c) of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 as applied in relation to mink by the Mink (Keeping) Order 1972 and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, 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. 2012/174, 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": "(1972 III, p. 5155)."
    },
    {
      "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 Functions (Wales) Order 1969(S.I. 1969/388; 1969 I, p. 1070)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/2223/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:46:43.977598+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."
}