{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-semen-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-semen-wales-regulations-2008/regulation-38.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/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Notice concerning illegal consignments",
  "text": "(1) If an inspector knows or suspects that semen has been imported from a member State in contravention of the Directive, he or she may serve a notice in accordance with paragraph (2) on the person appearing to him or her to be in charge of the semen.\n(2) The notice may require that person—\n(a) to detain semen at such place as the notice may specify;\n(b) to destroy semen in accordance with the requirements of the notice; or\n(c) to take such other action as the inspector may specify.\n(3) If a notice served under this regulation is not complied with, an inspector may enter any premises on which he or she knows or suspects semen the subject of the notice to be kept and may seize the semen and arrange for the requirements of the notice to be met.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 38(1) 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(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1040/regulation/38",
    "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."
}