{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-amendment-no-2-order-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2008/2913",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-amendment-no-2-order-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PLANT HEALTH, WALES\nMade 9 November 2008\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 11 November 2008\nComing into force 10 December 2008\nThe Welsh Ministers, in whom the powers conferred by sections 2 and 3(1) of the Plant Health Act 1967 are now vested, make the following Order in exercise of those powers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Functions of the competent authority referred to in sections 2 and 3 of the Plant Health Act 1967 were, so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State for Wales by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272). Functions of the Secretary of State for Wales transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functons) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). Functions of the National Assembly for Wales transferred to the Welsh Ministers under section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/2913/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."
}