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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/import-and-export-restrictions-foot-and-mouth-disease-no-9-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3284",
  "legislation_title": "The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No. 9) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/import-and-export-restrictions-foot-and-mouth-disease-no-9-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement in England the Commission Decision of 28th September 2001 amending for the seventh time Decision 2001/356/EC concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom (not yet published in the Official Journal).\nThe Regulations amend the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No. 9) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2502, as amended) so as to—\n(a) extend the time that those Regulations are in force to midnight on 30th November 2001 (regulation 2(2));\n(b) permit the dispatch of frozen bovine semen produced after 30th September 2001 in accordance with specified conditions in a semen collection centre authorised by the Secretary of State to dispatch such semen (regulation 2(4));and\n(c) require equidae dispatched from England to Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man to be accompanied by a health certificate (regulation 2(5)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3284/note",
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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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