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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-1997/article-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2964",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-1997",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Seizure and destruction of imports",
  "text": "(1) Where an inspector has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any class I specified risk material or any food or feeding stuff has been imported in contravention of article 6, he may at any time seize or cause to be seized that material, food or feeding stuff, or anything into which it has subsequently been incorporated.\n(2) A veterinary inspector may destroy anything seized pursuant to paragraph (1) above without compensation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2811",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/530",
      "affecting_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2726",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/344",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material Order Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2964/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:45.703583+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}