{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-scheduled-operations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1995/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-scheduled-operations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1995/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/173",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare of Animals (Scheduled Operations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-scheduled-operations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 to the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (Operations which ma>be performed without an anaesthetic) for paragraph 7(ii) there shall be substituted—\n“(ii) by any other means—\n(a) in the case of a calf or goat, before the age of two months;\n(b) in the case of a pig, before the age of four weeks; and\n(c) in the case of a lamb, before the age of three months.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As amended by S.R. 1983 No. 309"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/173/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:41:32.353006+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."
}