{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-amendment-order-1999/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nMade 8th June 1999\nComing into force 1st July 1999\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 8, 37(1), 38(1), 39 and 72 of the Animal Health Act 1981, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. See section 86(1)(a) for the definition of “the Ministers” and section 89(1) for the definition of “an order of the Minister”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1622/introduction",
    "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."
}