{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-scotland-order-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-scotland-order-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/528",
  "legislation_title": "The Mink Keeping (Scotland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mink-keeping-scotland-order-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nDESTRUCTIVE ANIMALS\nMade 5th November 2003\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 6th November 2003\nComing into force 1st January 2004\nThe Scottish Ministers, 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 large, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 10(1) of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 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; section 11 (interpretation) was amended by S.I. 1992/3302. The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Scotland were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/528/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:34:20.505329+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."
}