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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-deer-order-1989/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/878",
  "legislation_title": "The Tuberculosis (Deer) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-deer-order-1989",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notification of disease in deer",
  "text": "(1) A person who has in his possession or under his charge an affected or a suspected animal and a veterinary surgeon who in the course of his duties, examines any such animal shall, with all practicable speed, give notice of the fact to the Divisional Veterinary Officer.\n(2) A person who has in his possession or under his charge an affected or a suspected animal shall forthwith detain it on the premises where it then is and isolate it as far as practicable from other animals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2713",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health Orders (Divisional Veterinary Manager Amendment) Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2010/618",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) (Wales) Order 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2013/173",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2013"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/878/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:03.691313+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."
}