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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-amendment-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2014/2714",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture, Wales\nFood, Wales\nMade 8 October 2014\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 10 October 2014\nComing into force 6 November 2014\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 are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to food (including drink) including the primary production of food and measures relating to feed produced for or fed to food-producing animals, the common agricultural policy of the European Community and measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.\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 to an EU instrument defined in Schedule 1 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 and evaluation of the following 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) (“the 2006 Act”) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) (“the 2008 Act”). Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the 2006 Act and has been amended by section 3(3) of and the Schedule to the 2008 Act and by article 3 of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1971. Functions of the National Assembly for Wales under this designation were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of and paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/2766. Functions of the National Assembly for Wales under this designation were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of and paragraphs 28 and 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/1792."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ No. L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny - Part Four (OJ No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p. 14)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/2714/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."
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