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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-3/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "nia/2011/16",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to—\n(a) a power of inspection conferred by section 24(1), 25(1), 26(1), 27(1) or 28(1), and\n(b) a power of search conferred by a warrant under section 22(1).\n(2) A person exercising a power to which this paragraph applies may—\n(a) inspect an animal found on the premises;\n(b) inspect any other thing found on the premises, including a document or record (in whatever form it is held);\n(c) carry out a measurement or test (including a measurement or test of an animal found on the premises);\n(d) take a sample (including a sample from an animal found on the premises or from any substance on the premises which appears to be intended for use as food for such an animal);\n(e) mark an animal found on the premises for identification purposes;\n(f) remove a carcass found on the premises for the purpose of carrying out a post-mortem examination on it;\n(g) take copies of a document or record found on the premises (in whatever form it is held);\n(h) require information sorted in an electronic form and accessible from the premises to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible or from which it can readily be produced in a visible and legible form;\n(i) take a photograph of anything on the premises;\n(j) seize and detain or remove anything which the person exercising the power reasonably believes to be evidence of any non-compliance, or of the commission of any offence, relevant to the purpose for which the inspection or search is made.\n(3) A person taken onto premises under paragraph 6 may exercise any power conferred by sub-paragraph (2) if that person is in the company of, and under the supervision of, a person exercising a power to which this paragraph applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/16/schedule/3/paragraph/11",
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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."
}