{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, contravenes or fails to comply with article 3, 4, 4A or 4B of this Order shall be guilty of an offence against the Animal Health Act 1981.",
  "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), art. 18; and revoked (W. in relation to Bluetongue) (19.2.2003) by The Bluetongue (Wales) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/326), art. 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 6 substituted (E.) (21.4.2021) by The Specified Diseases (Notification and Control) (Amendment, etc.) (England) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/443), arts. 1(1), 4(5); substituted (W.) (21.4.2021) by The Animal Diseases (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/480), arts. 1(2), 3(5); and substituted (S.) (21.4.2021) by virtue of The Animal Health (Notification and Control Measures) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/130), arts. 1, 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 21.10.1996, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2628/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:56.791972+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."
}