{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1998/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1998/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 27th February 1998\nComing into force 1st April 1998\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 7, 8, 35(1), 87(2) and (5) and 88(2) and (4) of the Animal Health Act 1981 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, make the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (W.) (10.5.2008) by The Specified Animal Pathogens (Wales) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1270), arts. 1, 12; and Order revoked (S.) (1.3.2009) by The Specified Animal Pathogens (Scotland) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/45), arts. 1(1), 12(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22; see section 86(1) for a definition of “the Ministers”. Section 35(1) was amended by section 1 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/463/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:46.573954+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."
}