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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-animals-legislative-functions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111178737",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-animals-legislative-functions-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 concerning Community criteria for control posts and amending the route plan referred to in the Annex to Directive 91/628/EEC",
  "text": "(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 concerning Community criteria for control posts and amending the route plan referred to in the Annex to Directive 91/628/EEC is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 2, after the text insert—\n“(g) for the meaning of ‘the appropriate authority’ see Article 2a.”.\n(3) After Article 2, insert—\n“Article 2a\nDefinition of the appropriate authority\n1. Subject to paragraph 2 the ‘the appropriate authority’ means—\n(a) for regulations applying in relation to England, the Secretary of State;\n(b) for regulations applying in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n(c) for regulations applying in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;\n(d) for regulations applying in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.\n2. ‘The appropriate authority’ is the Secretary of State if consent is given by—\n(a) for regulations applying in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n(b) for regulations applying in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;\n(c) for regulations applying in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.”.\n(4) In Article 6a—\n(a) for “This Regulation shall be amended by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, on a proposal from the Commission” substitute “The appropriate authority may, by regulations, amend this Regulation”;\n(b) for “except as regards” substitute “including”;\n(c) for “the Annex” substitute “the Annexes to this Regulation”;\n(d) omit “which may be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 31(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005”.\n(5) After Article 6b insert—\n“Article 6c\nRegulations\n1. Regulations made by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers under this Regulation are to be made by statutory instrument.\n2. For regulations made under this Regulation by the Scottish Ministers, see section 27 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.\n3. Any power of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to make regulations under this Regulation is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979.\n4. A statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Secretary of State under this Regulation is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n5. A statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under this Regulation is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.\n6. Regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under this Regulation are subject to the negative procedure (see section 28 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010).\n7. Regulations made by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs under this Regulation are subject to negative resolution within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 as if they were a statutory instrument within the meaning of that Act.\n8. Regulations made under this Regulation may—\n(a) contain consequential, incidental, supplementary, transitional or saving provision, including provision amending, repealing or revoking enactments (which has the meaning given by section 20(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018);\n(b) make different provision for different purposes.\n9. Before making any regulations under this Regulation, the appropriate authority must consult—\n(a) such bodies or persons as appear to the appropriate authority to be representative of the interests likely to be substantially affected by the regulations;\n(b) such other bodies or persons as the appropriate authority may consider appropriate.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 asp 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12). Articles 2(4)(v) and (vi) were inserted by S.I. 2018/1242."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1954 c.33 (N.I.). Section 41(6) was amended by S.I. 1999/663."
    }
  ],
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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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