{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-slaughter-order-1992/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-slaughter-order-1992/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3159",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-and-slaughter-order-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 10th December 1992\nComing into force 1st January 1993\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 15(4). 32(2), 87(2) and 88(2) of the Animal Health Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E. in relation to bluetongue) (19.2.2003) by The Bluetongue Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/130), arts.1(1), 18; and revoked (W. in relation to bluetongue) (19.2.2003) by The Bluetongue (Wales) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/326), arts. 1(1), 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22; see section 86(1)(c) for the definition of “the Ministers”."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3159/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:09:06.907493+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."
}