{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-commercial-movement-of-pet-animals-order-2011/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2883",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-commercial-movement-of-pet-animals-order-2011",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Designation",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority—\n(a) is the competent authority for the purposes of Articles 3(g) and (h), 10(3)(b), ... 23 and 32(1)(b)(i) of the Pets Regulation, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The appropriate authority and the local authority are the competent authorities for the purposes of—\n(a) Articles 33(2), 34 and 35 of the Pets Regulation,\n(b) Article 2(1) of Decision 2007/25/EC, and\n(c) article 10 of this Order",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1)(a) substituted (29.12.2014) by The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3158), arts. 1(3), 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 4(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 36(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 4(1)(b) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/782), regs. 1, 6(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 4(2) substituted (29.12.2014) by The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3158), arts. 1(3), 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2883/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:48:39.103853+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."
}