{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-amendment-order-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-amendment-order-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/76",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (England) (Amendment) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-amendment-order-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals, England\nAnimal Health\nMade 20th January 2016\nComing into force 6th April 2016\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 and now vested in her.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.22 to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Minister” and “the Ministers” are now exercisable by the Secretary of State. Functions of “the Ministers” were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141). Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/76/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:28:04.694364+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."
}