{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-amendment-order-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1622",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-amendment-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order 1997",
  "text": "After article 21 of the Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order 1997 the following article shall be inserted–\n“21A Any person who uses a road vehicle for the transportation of animals to which Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 411/98 on additional animal protection standards applicable to road vehicles used for the carriage of livestock on journeys exceeding eight hours applies in contravention of that Regulation commits an offence against the Animal Health Act 1981.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1480, to which there is an amendment not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L52, 21.2.98, p. 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1622/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:37:52.022192+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."
}