{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1993/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1993/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3250",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1993",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibitions in relation to specified animal pathogens",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 5 below, no person shall have in his possession or deliberately introduce into animals any specified animal pathogen, or any carrier in which he knows such a pathogen is present, except under the authority of a licence issued by the appropriate Minister and in accordance with the conditions of that licence.\n(2) If any person has in his possession any thing in which he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a specified animal pathogen is present, and does not have a licence in respect of that pathogen he shall forthwith notify a veterinary inspector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3250/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:36.240436+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."
}