{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-amendment-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2025/425",
  "legislation_title": "The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-amendment-order-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred by the Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22). This Order applies in relation to Wales only.\nArticle 16(1) of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Wales) Order 2006 (“the 2006 Order”) currently requires the Welsh Ministers to declare a temporary control zone on suspicion of disease around a suspect premises. Article 2 of this Order amends article 16(1) of the 2006 Order to provide the Welsh Ministers with a discretion as to whether to declare a temporary control zone.\nThe Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/425/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:57:57.293686+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."
}