{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-regulations-1975/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-regulations-1975/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/2223",
  "legislation_title": "The Mink (Keeping) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932;\n“cage-trap” means a cage, trap or box designed or adapted for the catching alive of mink;\n“mink” means the animal of the species designated Mustela vison.\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if these regulations and the regulations hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.",
  "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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.1.1976, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/2223/regulation/3",
    "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."
}