{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/3376",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-feed-and-food-controls-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Competent authorities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (5), any body specified in Column 1 of Schedule 4 is designated as a competent authority for the purposes of the provisions of Regulation 2017/625 indicated in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of that Schedule in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant feed law.\n(2) Where the feed authority is designated as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (1) the designation extends to its area or district only, as the case may be.\n(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) to (6), any body specified in Column 1 of Schedule 5 is designated as a competent authority for the purposes of the provisions of Regulation 2017/625 indicated in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of that Schedule in so far as those provisions apply in relation to relevant food law.\n(4) Where the food authority is designated as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (3) the designation extends to its area only.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Where the Agency is designated as a competent authority pursuant to paragraph (3) for the purposes of Article 148 of Regulation 2017/625, the designation extends only to those operations in respect of which the Agency executes and enforces the Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006 by virtue of regulation 5(2) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 10(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(5) omitted (14.12.2019) by virtue of The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 10(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(6) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1482), regs. 1(1), 10(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/3376/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:54:42.367325+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."
}