{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-scotland-act-1980/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-scotland-act-1980/section-21.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/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Defraying of certain expenses.",
  "text": "A local authority owning a slaughterhouse may, if they so determine, defray out of the funds from which such slaughterhouse is maintained any expenses incurred by them in the exercise of their powers under section .... . . 17 of this Act.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 21 omitted (1.1.2013) by virtue of The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/321), reg. 1(b), Sch. 4 para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 21 repealed (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/731, reg. 28(1), Sch. 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/13/section/21",
    "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."
}