{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/35",
  "legislation_title": "Pet Animals Act 1951",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-animals-act-1951",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Pets not to be sold in streets, &c.",
  "text": "If any person carries on a business of selling animals as pets in any part of a streetroad or public place, or at a stall or barrow in a market, he shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word “road” substituted (S.) for “street” by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), Sch. 9 para. 40(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word substituted by Pet Animals Act 1951 (Amendment) Act 1983 (c. 26, SIF 4:5), s. 1(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/45",
      "affecting_title": "Animal Welfare Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14-15/35/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:20.907750+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."
}