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  "title": "The Specified Bovine Material Order 1996",
  "short_title": "Specified Bovine Material 1996",
  "long_title": "This Order revokes and re-makes with amendments the Specified Bovine Offal Order 1995. That Order implemented various directives as specified in that Order. It provides that bovine heads (other than tongues) shall be disposed of as specified bovine material as well as the materials specified in the earlier Order.",
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