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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-wales-amendment-regulations-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2021/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-wales-amendment-regulations-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Plant Health, Wales\nMade 12 March 2021\nLaid before Senedd Cymru 15 March 2021\nComing into force 8 April 2021\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 22(2) and 144(6) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products (“the Official Controls Regulation”), make the following Regulations.\nThe Welsh Ministers have consulted in accordance with Article 144(7) of the Official Controls Regulation before making these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2017/625, amended by S.I. 2020/1481; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant. See Article 3(2A) for the definition of “the appropriate authority”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/302/introduction",
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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."
}