{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-2008/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-2008/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/336",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Animal Pathogens Order (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibitions in relation to specified animal pathogens",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not 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 Department.\n(2) A person shall not 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 Department.\n(3) A person must immediately notify the Department 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 30.8.2008, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/336/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:14.012469+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."
}