{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgeons-act-1966/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/36",
  "legislation_title": "Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgeons-act-1966",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The performance by any person of or over the age of eighteen of any of the following operations, that is to say—\n(a) the castration of a male animal or the caponising of an animal, whether by chemical means or otherwise;\n(b) the docking of the tail of a lamb;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) the amputation of the dew claws of a dog before its eyes are open.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 4(c) ceases to have effect (1.7.1993) by virtue of S.I. 1991/1412, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/36/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:22.921544+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."
}