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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutilations-permitted-procedures-wales-regulations-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/1029",
  "legislation_title": "The Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutilations-permitted-procedures-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Tail docking",
  "text": "The procedure may only be carried out where measures to improve environmental conditions or management systems have first been taken to prevent tail-biting, but there is still evidence to show that injury to pigs' tails by biting has occurred.\nThe method used must involve quick and complete severance of the tail.\nAn anaesthetic and additional prolonged analgesia must be administered where the animal is aged 7 days or over.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/1029/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:11.396717+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."
}