{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-animal-products-import-and-export-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-animal-products-import-and-export-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1158",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-animal-products-import-and-export-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Importation",
  "text": "(1) A person must not import any animal —\n(a) either for entry into the UK or for export to another member State unless the conditions in Article 4 of Council Directive 91/496/EEC are complied with; or\n(b) for immediate re-export, either directly or indirectly, outside the European Community unless such transit has been previously authorised in writing by the National Assembly and the conditions in Article 9 of Council Directive 91/496/EEC have been complied with.\n(2) A person must not import any animal except from a country or territory specified under the instruments in Part I of Schedule 7.\n(3) A person must not import any animal to which an instrument in Part II of Schedule 7 applies unless it complies with the relevant provisions of that instrument and any additional requirements specified in that Part.\n(4) Where an animal is imported for slaughter, it must be taken directly and without undue delay to a slaughterhouse, and if it is not taken directly and without undue delay to a slaughterhouse, an inspector may by notice served on the person appearing to him or her to be in charge of the animal, require the animal to be taken to such slaughterhouse as may be specified in the notice.\n(5) In the event of a notice served under paragraph (4) not being complied with an inspector may seize any animal to which it relates and arrange for the requirements of the notice to be complied with.\n(6) The person in charge of an animal that has been imported for immediate re-export, either directly or indirectly, outside the European Community must comply with Article 4, second indent, of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 282/2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L49, 19.2.2004, p. 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1158/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:37.925165+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."
}