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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-order-northern-ireland-2008/note",
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  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Specified Animal Pathogens Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S. R. 1999 No. 434).\nThe principal change is to provide for additional powers for inspectors (Schedule 2).\nAs in the previous Order, it provides that possession of an animal pathogen specified in Part I of Schedule 1, or introduction into an animal of an animal pathogen specified in Parts I and II of that Schedule, requires a licence from the Department.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/336/note",
    "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."
}