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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/16",
  "legislation_title": "Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006",
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  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) The enforcement provisions of the 1981 Act relating to Group 1 offences and Group 1 licences apply for the purposes of the 1932 Act as if—\n(a) any reference to a Group 1 offence were a reference to any offence under the 1932 Act,\n(b) any reference to a Group 1 licence were a reference to a licence under the 1932 Act, and\n(c) as if the power to take a sample included power to take a sample from a destructive animal (whether live or dead) for the purpose of testing for disease.\n(2) “Destructive animal” means a musk rat or other animal to which the 1932 Act applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 8 in force at 31.5.2006 by S.I. 2006/1382, art. 2"
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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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