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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-sampling-and-qualifications-wales-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2013/479",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) (Wales) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-sampling-and-qualifications-wales-regulations-2013",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations revoke, in relation to Wales, (at regulation 12) and remake with amendments provisions of the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/2463).\nThe Regulations —\n(a)specify the qualifications necessary to be a public analyst or food analyst (regulation 4) or food examiner (regulation 5 and Schedule 2) for the purposes of the Food Safety Act 1990;\n(b)prohibit specified persons from carrying out analyses or examinations (regulation 6);\n(c)specify the procedures to be followed when a sample has been procured under that Act for analysis or examination (regulations 7, 8 and 9), and exclude from these procedures samples taken under Regulations which have their own procedures (regulation 3 and Schedule 1); and\n(d)prescribe the form of certificate to be used by analysts and examiners in making their reports (regulation 10 and Schedule 3).\nThe Regulations also make consequential amendments to other Regulations (regulation 11).\nThe Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory assessment has been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. A copy can be obtained from the Food Standards Agency at Food Standards Agency Wales, 11th Floor, Southgate House, Wood Street, Cardiff CF10 1EW",
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  "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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