{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spongiform-encephalopathy-miscellaneous-amendments-order-1994/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spongiform-encephalopathy-miscellaneous-amendments-order-1994/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2627",
  "legislation_title": "The Spongiform Encephalopathy (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spongiform-encephalopathy-miscellaneous-amendments-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 1985",
  "text": "(1) The Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 1985 shall be amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) In article 2 (extension of the definitions of “animals” and “disease”) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following:\n“(b) the definition of “disease” in section 88(1) of the Act is hereby extended so as to comprise African horse sickness, Aujeszky’s disease, dourine, enzootic bovine leukosis, equine infectious anaemia, equine encephalomyelitis, rabies, spongiform encephalopathy and Teschen disease.”.\n(3) In article 3 (interpretation) for the definition of “disease” there shall be substituted the following:\n““disease” means African horse sickness, Aujeszky’s disease, Brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis, cattle plague, contagious agalactia, contagious epidydimitis, dourine, enzootic bovine leukosis, equine infectious anaemia, equine encephalomyelitis, pleuro-pneumonia, rabies, sheep-pox, spongiform encephalo- pathy, swine fever, and Teschen disease;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1765 as amended by S.I. 1992/3159."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/353",
      "affecting_title": "The Movement of Animals (Restrictions) (Scotland) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2627/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:24:47.759808+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."
}