{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-anaesthetics-act-1954/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-anaesthetics-act-1954/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-7.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": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any minor operation performed by a veterinary surgeon or veterinary practitioner, being an operation which, by reason of its quickness or painlessness, is customarily so performed without the use of an anaesthetic.",
  "extent": null,
  "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      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.) (27.3.2007 for W., 6.4.2007 for E.) and s. 2(2) and Sch. 2 Pt. 1 repealed (E.W.S.) (27.3.2007 for W., 6.4.2007 for E.) by Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c. 45), s. 68(3), Sch. 4 (with ss. 1(2), 58(1), 59, 60); S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(m);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": "Para. 7 amended by Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1964 (c. 39), s. 1(1)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to modify para. 7 given by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (c. 34), s. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Paras. 7, 8 amended by S.I. 1980/685, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "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."
}