{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-amendment-act-1927/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-amendment-act-1927/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/17-18/27",
  "legislation_title": "Protection Of Animals (Amendment) Act 1927",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-amendment-act-1927",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Poisoned grain and flesh, &c.",
  "text": "For the proviso of section eight of the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, there shall be substituted thefollowing proviso, that is to say:—\nProvided that, in any proceedings under paragraph (b) of this section,it shall be a defence that the poison was placed by the accused forthe purpose of destroying insects and other invertebrates, rats, mice,or other small ground vermin, where such is found to be necessary inthe interests of public health, agriculture, or the preservation ofother animals, domestic or wild, or for the purpose of manuring theland, and that he took all reasonable preecautions to prevent injurythereby to dogs, cats, fowls, or other domestic animals and wildbirds.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1 & 2 Geo. 5. c.27."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/27/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:53.737196+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."
}