{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-animal-products-import-and-export-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-animal-products-import-and-export-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exception",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations do not apply to veterinary checks on movements of pets (other than equidae) accompanied by and under the responsibility of a natural person, where such movements are not the subject of a commercial transaction.\n(2) Where any person is accompanying and has under his or her responsibility more than five pets travelling together which —\n(a) are each of a species listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No. 998/2003; and\n(b) come from a third country other than one listed in section 2 of part B of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No. 998/2003,\nthese Regulations apply to the veterinary checks on the movements of those animals, notwithstanding that their movement is not the subject of a commercial transaction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L146, 13.6.2003, p. 1, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 592/2004 (OJ No. L94, 31.3.2004, p. 7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1158/regulation/2",
    "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."
}