{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-wales-regulations-2019/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-wales-regulations-2019/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2019/57",
  "legislation_title": "The Equine Identification (Wales) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-wales-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals, Wales\nMade 15 January 2019\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 17 January 2019\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (“the 1972 Act”) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union.\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the 1972 Act.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the 1972 Act and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for references in these Regulations to provisions of European Union instruments to be construed as references to those provisions as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2690."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). It is prospectively repealed by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) from exit day (see section 20 of that Act)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. It was amended by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 and by S.I. 2007/1388. It is prospectively repealed by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 from exit day (see section 20 of that Act)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/57/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:59.464410+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."
}