{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spongiform-encephalopathy-miscellaneous-amendments-order-1994/article-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991",
  "text": "(1) The Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1991 shall be amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) After article 4 there shall be inserted the following:\n“Notification of spongiform encephalopathy\n4A (1) A person who, in the course of a laboratory examination of the carcase of any poultry, or any animal other than a sheep, a goat or an animal of the bovine species, reasonably suspects the presence of spongiform encephalopathy, shall—\n(a) give notice of that fact as soon as practicable in accordance with article 5(1) below,\n(b) retain the sample examined and the remainder of the carcase until its disposal is authorised in writing by a veterinary inspector, and\n(c) if required in writing to do so by a veterinary inspector, surrender any samples in whatever form they are to a veterinary inspector.\n(2) This article shall not apply to any spongiform encephalopathy which has been deliberately introduced into an animal, a carcase, or a sample in a laboratory.\n(3) For the purposes of the Act in its application to this article—\n(a) the definition of “animals” in section 87(1) of the Act is hereby extended to comprise—\n(i) any kind of mammal except man, and\n(ii) any kind of four-footed beast which is not a mammal;\n(b) the definition of “poultry” in section 87(4) of the Act is hereby extended to comprise birds of all species; and\n(c) the definition of “disease” in section 88(1) of the Act is hereby extended to comprise any spongiform encephalopathy.”.\n(3) In article 6 (offence) for the words “article 4” there shall be substituted the words “article 4 or article 4A”.\n(4) In article 8 (local authority to enforce order) for the words “article 4” there shall be substituted the words “articles 4 and 4A”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1155 as amended by S.I. 1992/3159."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2628",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2627/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}