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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/movement-of-animals-restrictions-order-northern-ireland-2004/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/249",
  "legislation_title": "Movement of Animals (Restrictions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Extension of definitions of “animals” and “disease”",
  "text": "For the purposes of the 1981 Order in its application to this Order –\n(a) the list of animals in Part I of Schedule 1 to the 1981 Order is hereby extended so as to comprise –\n(i) any kind of mammal except man; and\n(ii) any kind of four-footed beast which is not a mammal; and\n(b) the definition of “disease” in relation to animals in Article 2(2) of the 1981 Order is extended to comprise any disease of animals.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/249/article/3",
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  "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."
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