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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warble-fly-ascertainment-of-infestation-england-and-wales-order-1985/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1766",
  "legislation_title": "The Warble Fly (Ascertainment of Infestation) (England and Wales) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/warble-fly-ascertainment-of-infestation-england-and-wales-order-1985",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This order extends the meaning of “disease” to the infestation of cattle with the maggot of the warble fly for the purposes of section 63(9) of the Animal Health Act 1981 (Article 2). Section 63(9) as amended by section 2 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 enables a Ministry inspector to enter any land, building or other place for the purpose of ascertaining whether any disease exists, or has within 56 days existed, there. These powers will now be exercisable not only in relation to the diseases mentioned in Article 3 of the Diseases of Animals (Ascertainment of Disease) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/1765) but also in relation to the infestation of cattle with the maggot of the warble fly.\nThe order also enables a Ministry inspector to carry out such inquiries etc and take such samples as are necessary to ascertain whether infestation exists, or has within 56 days existed, on the premises he has entered and provides for the marking of cattle (Article 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1766/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:59:49.690435+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."
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