{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-amendment-scotland-order-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/41",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-amendment-scotland-order-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals\nAnimal Health\nMade 21st January 2016\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 25th January 2016\nComing into force 2nd March 2016\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.22. Powers to make Orders under these sections were originally conferred on “the Minister” and “the Ministers”, as defined in section 86(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 (“the Act”). The functions of the Minister and the Ministers were, in so far as within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/41/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}