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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-amendment-order-2007/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-amendment-order-2007/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2007/3002",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-wales-amendment-order-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS, WALES\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 18 October 2007\nComing into force 4:45p.m. on 18 October 2007\nThis Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the reference to Commission Decision 2005/393/EC on protection and surveillance zones in relation to bluetongue and conditions applying to movements from or through these zones to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 and sections 1, 8(1), 17(1) and 35 of the Animal Health Act 1981 and now vested in them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972, c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 130, 24.5.2005, p.22, as last amended by Commission Decision 2007/28/EC, OJ L8 , 13.1.2007, p.51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1981 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Functions transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by SI 1999/672 and SI 2004/3044. By virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, these functions are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
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