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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2126",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Keeping livestock",
  "text": "(1) No person shall keep, or cause or knowingly permit to be kept, a laying hen in a battery cage unless the conditions of Schedule 1 to these Regulations are complied with.\n(2) No person shall keep, or cause or knowingly permit to be kept, a calf unless the conditions of Schedule 2 to these Regulations are complied with.\n(3) No person shall keep, or cause or knowingly permit to be kept, a pig unless the conditions of Schedule 3 to these Regulations are complied with.\n(4) No person shall keep, or cause or knowingly permit to be kept, other livestock unless the conditions of Schedule 4 to these Regulations are complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2126/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:27:41.340125+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."
}