{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-wales-order-2006/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-wales-order-2006/note.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/866",
  "legislation_title": "The Brucellosis (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note does not form part of the Order)\nThis Order revokes and substantially re-enacts the Brucellosis Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/758) in relation to Wales.\nIt implements the provisions relating to milk of Council Directive 64/432/EEC as amended (on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine) (OJ No L121, 29.7.64, p. 1977) and Council Directive 77/391/EEC, as amended (introducing Community measures for the eradication of brucellosis, tuberculosis and leucosis in cattle) (OJ No L145, 13.6.77, p.44). These Directives require the operation of a monitoring and testing programme to maintain the officially brucellosis-free status of Great Britain under Council Directive 64/432/EEC.\nThe principal changes made by this Order relate to the arrangements for testing milk for evidence of brucellosis and the removal of the List of Approved Laboratories that were contained in Schedule 1 to the 1997 Order. Article 7(1) sets out the duties of those who buy milk in Wales for resale to ensure that milk is sent for testing to an approved laboratory.\nThe person in charge of an approved laboratory must notify the National Assembly within 24 hours if the result of any test for brucellosis is positive and within one month if the result is negative. That person must maintain records of all the tests carried out for a period of one year (article 7(5)).\nThe Order is enforced by the local authority (article 24).\nA failure to comply with any provision of this Order is an offence against the Animal Health Act 1981 (article 23).\nA Regulatory Appraisal in relation to this Order has been prepared and placed in the library of the National Assembly. Copies can be obtained from the Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer, Endemic Diseases Branch, Welsh Assembly Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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