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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-abduction-act-2024/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-abduction-act-2024/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/16",
  "legislation_title": "Pet Abduction Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-abduction-act-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to create offences of dog abduction and cat abduction and to confer a power to make corresponding provision relating to the abduction of other animals commonly kept as pets.\n[24th May 2024]\nBe it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/16/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:48:16.157753+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."
}