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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aquatic-animal-health-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Aquatic Animal Health (England and Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aquatic-animal-health-england-and-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animal Health, England And Wales\nMade 3rd March 2009\nLaid before Parliament 5th March 2009\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 5th March 2009\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers are each designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community.\nThese Regulations make provision for purposes mentioned in that section and it appears to the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for any reference to the following Community instruments to be construed as a reference to those instruments as amended from time to time:\n(a) Commission Decision 2004/453/EC on implementing Council Directive 91/67/EEC as regards measures against certain diseases in aquaculture animals;\n(b) Council Directive 2006/88/EC on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals; and\n(c) Commission Regulation (EC) No.1251/2008 on implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards conditions and certification requirements for the placing on the market and the import into the Community of aquaculture animals and products thereof and laying down a list of vector species.\nThe Secretary of State in relation to England and the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales make these Regulations under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811 and S.I. 2005/2766. By virtue of sections 59(1) and 162 of, and paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by the designation in S.I. 2005/2766 are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers."
    },
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      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c.68."
    },
    {
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      "label": "M3",
      "text": "OJ No L 156, 30.4.2004, p5; corrected by OJ No L 202, 7.6.2004, p4 which substitutes new text for the whole of Commission Decision 2004/453/EC."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "OJ No L 328, 24.11.2006, p14; corrected by OJ No L 140, 1.6.2007, p59, OJ No L 239, 12.9.2007, p70."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "OJ No L 337, 16.12.2008, p41."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/463/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:16:46.592810+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."
}