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  "title": "The Sheep Scab Order 1997",
  "long_title": "This Order gives a local authority power to serve a notice requiring the temporary clearance from common land of sheep affected with sheep scab (articles 3 and 4). If sheep are not moved in accordance with the notice the local authority may seize them (article 5).",
  "citation": "S.I. 1997/968",
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