{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-animals-feed-and-food-plant-health-etc-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-animals-feed-and-food-plant-health-etc-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1481",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-animals-feed-and-food-plant-health-etc-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "General transitional provision relating to the presentation or other use of model forms of certificates or other documents",
  "text": "(1) Where these Regulations amend any provision of assimilated direct legislation which, on or after IP completion day, enables, or may be used to make regulations which enable, the presentation or other use of a document in “the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time”, that amendment does not preclude a document in the form specified in assimilated direct legislation, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day, from being presented or otherwise used, on or after IP completion day, in connection with official controls carried out during the transitional staging period.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) “document” includes a certificate, official attestation, evidence or any other document;\n(b) “the transitional staging period” means the period beginning on IP completion day and ending on—\n(i) 31st July 2021; or\n(ii) such other date as the appropriate authority may by regulations appoint, being a date not earlier than 1st July 2021.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46(1) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 49"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 46 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1481/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:51.678857+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."
}