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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-scheduled-operations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/514",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare of Animals (Scheduled Operations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-scheduled-operations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1996",
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  "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 may be performed without an anaesthetic) for paragraph 8 there shall be substituted—\n“8 The disbudding of calves by chemical cauterisation applied before the second week of life.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As amended by S.R. 1983 No. 309 and S.R. 1995 No. 173"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/514/article/2",
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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."
}