{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-semen-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-semen-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1040",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Semen (Wales) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-semen-wales-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations do not apply where—\n(a) semen is collected for the purpose of the artificial insemination of a bovine animal with fresh semen;\n(b) the bovine animal from which the semen is collected—\n(i) is not, at the time of collection, affected by an Order made under sections 6(c), 8, 17, 23, 25, 26 or 29 of the Animal Health Act 1981 ; or,\n(ii) is so affected, but the use of its semen is authorised by the Welsh Ministers; and\n(c) when the bovine animal is inseminated—\n(i) it is in the same ownership and the same herd as the bovine animal from which the semen was collected; and\n(ii) it is kept on the same premises as that bovine animal.\n(2) These Regulations do not apply where semen is collected for the purpose of—\n(a) assessing the suitability of a bovine animal for use in breeding;\n(b) diagnosing infection or disease in a bovine animal; or\n(c) education or research,\nprovided the semen collected is not used for artificial insemination and is not the subject of trade with a member State.\n(3) These Regulations do not apply to research authorised under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/597), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/597), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. Section 17(4) was repealed by the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984, section 16(2) and Schedule 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1986 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1040/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:27.365447+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."
}