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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2000/schedule-6/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2000/442",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2000",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Use of tethers",
  "text": "(1) Where the use of tethers is permitted in accordance with paragraph 8, they must not cause injury to the pigs and must be inspected regularly and adjusted as necessary to ensure a comfortable fit.\n(2) Each tether must be of sufficient length to allow the pigs to move as stipulated in paragraph 4 and the design must besuch as to avoid, as far as possible, any risk of strangulation, pain or injury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/256",
      "affecting_title": "The Prohibited Procedures on Protected Animals (Exemptions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/488",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/442/schedule/6/paragraph/9",
    "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."
}