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  "title": "The Zoonoses Order 1988",
  "long_title": "Section 29 of the Animal Health Act 1981 (“the Act”) empowers Ministers, with a view to reducing the risk to human health from any disease of animals, to make an order designating any such disease which, in their opinion, constitutes such a risk and applying any provision of the Act to that disease.",
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