{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/35",
  "legislation_title": "Pet Animals Act 1951",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to regulate the sale of pet animals.\n[22nd June 1951]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (6.10.2006 for the purpose of the repeal of s. 3 only, 1.9.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 11), s. 55(1), sch. 2 para. 9(d) (with s. 54); S.S.I. 2006/482, art. 3; S.S.I. 2020/464, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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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."
}