{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-2008/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-2008/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/944",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-2008",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibitions in relation to specified animal pathogens",
  "text": "(1) No person may have in their possession—\n(a) any animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1; or\n(b) any carrier in which they know such a pathogen is present,\nexcept under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.\n(2) No person may deliberately introduce into any animal any animal pathogen specified in either Part 1 or Part 2 of that Schedule, except under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.\n(3) A person must immediately notify the Secretary of State if that person—\n(a) has possession of any thing in respect of which they have reasonable grounds for suspecting that an animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 is present, and\n(b) does not have a licence in respect of that pathogen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/944/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:27.249339+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."
}