{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-northern-ireland-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-northern-ireland-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/248",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Diseases (Notification) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-diseases-notification-order-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nMade 1st June 2004\nComing into operation 9th June 2004\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 2(3), 10(6), 19(f) and 60(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Agriculture: see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Art. 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Article 17 and S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Articles 20, 22 and 23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/248/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:57:25.418841+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."
}