{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 15th October 1996\nComing into force 21st October 1996\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, 8(1), 15(4), 72, 87(2) and (5) and 88(2) and (4) of the Animal Health Act 1981, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make 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), 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": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for a definition of “the Ministers” and “the Minister”."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2628/introduction",
    "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."
}