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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-anaesthetics-act-1954/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-anaesthetics-act-1954/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/46",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-anaesthetics-act-1954",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to repeal the Animals (Anaesthetics) Act, 1919, and to extend the provisions of the Protection of Animals Acts in relation to the performance of operations on animals.\n[30th July 1954]",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.) (27.3.2007 for W., 6.4.2007 for E.) and s. 2(2) and Sch. 2 Pt. 1 repealed (E.W.S.) (27.3.2007 for W., 6.4.2007 for E.) by Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c. 45), s. 68(3), Sch. 4 (with ss. 1(2), 58(1), 59, 60); S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(m); S.I. 2007/499, art. 2(2)(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: Functions transferred (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, art. 2(1), Sch. (with arts. 2(5), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: Functions transferred (W.)(1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act applied (S.) (3.10.2003) by Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/488), reg. 23(2)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/46/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:58.228295+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."
}