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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-28",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2000/442",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2000",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/28",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Breeding procedures",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), natural or artificial breeding or breeding procedures which cause, or are likely to cause, suffering or injury to any of the animals concerned must not be practised.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not preclude the use of natural or artificial breeding procedures which are likely to cause minimal or momentary suffering or injury or that might necessitate interventions which would not cause lasting injury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2002/334",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/442/schedule/1/paragraph/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:48:42.912575+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."
}