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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-of-live-fish-crayfish-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1104",
  "legislation_title": "The Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-of-live-fish-crayfish-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition of keeping of crayfish",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, no person shall keep any live crayfish, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Minister.\n(2) The prohibition specified in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to crayfish of the species Pacifastacus leniusculus (commonly known as the signal crayfish) kept within those parts of England and Wales which are within the postcode areas set out in column 1 (and described in column 2), as read with column 3, of the Schedule to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2292",
      "affecting_title": "The Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture (England and Wales) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2292",
      "affecting_title": "The Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture (England and Wales) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/527",
      "affecting_title": "The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/527",
      "affecting_title": "The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1104/article/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."
}