{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-spongiform-encephalopathy-england-and-wales-compensation-amendment-order-2001/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-spongiform-encephalopathy-england-and-wales-compensation-amendment-order-2001/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3749",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy (England and Wales) (Compensation) (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-spongiform-encephalopathy-england-and-wales-compensation-amendment-order-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 22nd November 2001\nLaid before Parliament 23rd November 2001\nComing into force 14th December 2001\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 32(3) of the Animal Health Act 1981 acting in relation to England and Wales with the approval of the Treasury; and The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercise of the power conferred on her by section 34(7) of the said Act acting in relation to England, and The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the National Assembly for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 34(7) of the said Act, in relation to Wales. Hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.) (1.7.2015) by The Water, Animals, Marine Pollution and Environmental Protection (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/663), arts. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22; see section 86(1) for definitions of “the Minister” and “the Ministers”. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable in relation to England, were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/3141 and in relation to Wales functions of the Ministers, so far as exercisable by the Secretary of State for Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, article 2, Schedule 1. Section 32 was applied to any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy by article 7(1) of the Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1998, S.I. 1998/1645."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3749/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:21:46.382521+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."
}