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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951-amendment-act-1983/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951-amendment-act-1983/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/26",
  "legislation_title": "Pet Animals Act 1951 (Amendment) Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951-amendment-act-1983",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Pet Animals Act 1951 regulating the sale of pet animals.\n[9th May 1983]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (1.9.2021) by Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 11), s. 55(1), sch. 2 para. 9(l) (with s. 54); S.S.I. 2020/464, art. 2 (with art. 3)"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."
}