{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-amendment-act-1954/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-amendment-act-1954/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/40",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-amendment-act-1954",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation, citation, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n(a) expressions used have, in relation to England and Wales, the same meanings as in the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, and, in relation to Scotland, the same meanings as in the Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act, 1912; and\n(b) references to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any other enactment, including this Act.\n(2) This Act may be cited as the Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1954.\n(3) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(4) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(1) repealed (E.W.) (27.3.2007 for W., 6.4.2007 for E.) by Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c. 45), s. 68(3), Sch. 4 (with ss. 1(2), 58(1), 59, 60); S.I. 2007/499, art. 2(2)(m); S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1911 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1912 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/40/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:02.767601+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."
}