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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-scheduled-operations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/380",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare of Animals (Scheduled Operations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-scheduled-operations-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order further amends Schedule 1 to the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The effect of the amendment is to reduce the age beyond which castration of pigs may not be performed without anaesthetic from 4 weeks to 7 days in order to implement the requirement of paragraph 8 of chapter 1 of Annexe 1 to Commission Directive 2001/93/EC (O.J. No. L316, 1.12.2001, p. 36).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/380/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:01:33.740438+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."
}