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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-437/annex/chapter-XIII",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/437",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 4 August 2006 approving a Diagnostic Manual for avian influenza as provided for in Council Directive 2005/94/EC (notified under document number C(2006) 3477) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/437/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-437",
  "path": "annex/chapter/XIII",
  "kind": "chapter",
  "number": "XIII",
  "heading": "Dispatch of viruses and samples to the Weybridge laboratory",
  "text": "Any samples to be sent to the Weybridge National Reference Laboratory must comply with legislative requirements for the transport of dangerous pathogens.\nThe outer packaging must indicate whether it contains avian influenza virus or tissues and other materials for testing, and be marked as follows:\n‘ANIMAL PATHOGEN — PACKAGE ONLY TO BE OPENED AT THE AVIAN VIROLOGY SECTION, WEYBRIDGE LABORATORY, NEW HAW, SURREY, TK15 3NB’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Annex Ch. 13 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 10(11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/437/annex/chapter/XIII",
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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."
}