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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1155",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Extension of definitions of “animals” and “disease”",
  "text": "For the purposes of the Act in its application to this Order—\n(a) the definition of “animals” in section 87(1) of the Act is hereby extended to comprise ungulates and rabbits ; and\n(b) the definition of “disease” in section 88(1) of the Act is hereby extended to comprise the diseases listed in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3159",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification and Slaughter) Order 1992"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1155/article/2",
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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."
}