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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-sampling-and-qualifications-wales-regulations-2013/regulation-5",
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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": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Qualifications of food examiners",
  "text": "(1) A person is qualified to be a food examiner if that person—\n(a) before the coming into force of these Regulations, was qualified to be a food examiner under regulation 4 of the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990 ; or\n(b) on or after that date,\n(i) possesses a qualification listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2; and\n(ii) has carried out examination of food over a period or periods amounting in aggregate to at least 3 years in one or more of the laboratories listed in Part 2 of that Schedule.\n(2) In calculating the qualification period in paragraph (1)(b)(ii), no account is to be taken of any period spent as an undergraduate in a laboratory specified in paragraphs 4 to 6 of Part 2 of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/2463."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/479/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:43:44.217787+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."
}