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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-slaughter-amendment-scotland-order-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2021/160",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-slaughter-amendment-scotland-order-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals\nMade 22nd March 2021\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 23rd March 2021\nComing into force 21st April 2021\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 32(2) and 87(2)(a) 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 functions of the Minister and the Ministers, insofar as within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/160/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:17.822773+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."
}