{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-official-controls-charges-wales-amendment-regulations-2019/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-official-controls-charges-wales-amendment-regulations-2019/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2019/1480",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-official-controls-charges-wales-amendment-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Food, Wales\nMade 27 November 2019\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 28 November 2019\nComing into force 14 December 2019\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Welsh Ministers have been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures in respect of food (including drink) including the primary production of food.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for any reference in the Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2009 to an EU instrument defined in Schedule 1 to those Regulations, as those Regulations are amended by these Regulations, to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.\nAs required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety there has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1971. By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by this designation are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/1557 (W. 152), amended by S.I. 2011/1043, 2014/951 (W. 92) and 2018/806 (W. 162). It has been prospectively amended by S.I. 2019/434 (W. 102)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 241)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/1480/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:00.303885+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."
}