{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/import-and-export-restrictions-foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/2330",
  "legislation_title": "The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/import-and-export-restrictions-foot-and-mouth-disease-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which apply in relation to Wales, implement Commission Decision 2007/552/EC concerning interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom.\nThey regulate—\n(a) the importation and dispatch of live animals (regulations 4 and 5);\n(b) the export of meat from bovine, ovine caprine and porcine animals and other biungulates (regulation 6);\n(c) the export of meat products, milk and dairy products (regulations 7, 8 and 9);\n(d) the export of semen, ova or embryos of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates (regulation 10), hides and skins (regulation 11) and various animal products (regulation 12);\n(e) the export of equidae (regulation 15); and\n(f) personal exports (regulation 16)\nThey create an offence of offering to export anything which it is prohibited to export under the Regulations (regulation 17).\nThey provide powers for enforcement and powers for officers of Revenue and Customs (regulations 18 to 20) and create an offence of obstruction (regulation 21).\nBreach of the Regulations is an offence, punishable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment not exceeding three months or to both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.\nThe Regulations are enforced by the Welsh Ministers or the local authority (regulation 26).\nA regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/2330/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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