{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-scotland-act-1980/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-scotland-act-1980/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/13",
  "legislation_title": "Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power of local authorities to provide public slaughterhouses.",
  "text": "Subject to section 3 of this Act, a local authority may provide and, if they think fit, operate a slaughterhouse and may dispose of any slaughterhouse belonging to them by ... sale, lease or excambion; and any slaughterhouse so disposed of shall be deemed to be disposed of under Part VI of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (11.09.1996) by S.I. 1996/2235, art. 9(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 1 repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 13 Pts. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/13/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:47.640624+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."
}