{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-control-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/263",
  "legislation_title": "Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-control-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notification by the Department of diseased or suspected animals",
  "text": "Where the Department knows or suspects that an animal, a herd or a carcase is diseased, it shall serve on the keeper thereof a notice informing him of the fact.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 26.7.1999, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/263",
      "affecting_title": "Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/263/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:19:13.914835+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."
}