{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-2008/introduction.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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals\nAnimal Health\nMade 6th August 2008\nComing into operation 30th August 2008\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 2(3), 5(1), 19, 30(1) and 60(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules excluded (18.11.2013) by The African Horse Sickness Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/244), reg. 4(a) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland see the Departments Order 1999 S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article3 (4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Article 17, S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Arts. 19, 22 to 24 and Schedule, S.R. 2002 No.225 and S.R. 2006 No.41"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/336/introduction",
    "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."
}