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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-amendment-order-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2006/2926",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-amendment-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2006 (“the principal Order”).\nArticles 2(2) and 3 amend provisions of the principal Order on the identification of animals moved to another member State of the European Union. They remove the possibility of marking such an animal with an “X tag” (as defined in Article 2(1) of the principal Order). Article 3(3) amends Article 16 of Schedule 1 to the principal Order so that, in the case of an animal moved from a holding to an assembly centre for consignment to another member State, a second eartag must be applied before the animal leaves the holding.\nParagraphs (3) to (6) of Article 2 amend provisions of the principal Order on the replacement of removed, lost or illegible eartags or other means of identification. The effect of the amendments is that a replacement means of identification must be applied as soon as possible, but no later than 28 days, after the removal or the discovery of the loss or illegibility of the identification, but in any event before the animal leaves the holding.\nArticle 2(7) inserts new enforcement provisions into the principal Order. Article 34A gives a range of powers to inspectors, and Article 34B gives them a power to prohibit the movement of animals on, to or from a holding, by notice served on a keeper, if satisfied that the prohibition is necessary for the proper enforcement of the principal Order. New Articles 34C, 34D and 34E relate to the giving of reasonable assistance to a person acting under the principal Order, to the provision of false or misleading information, and to offences committed by bodies corporate.\nArticle 3 and the Schedule substitute Schedule 3 to the principal Order, which prescribes the form for recording animal movements. The new form contains a field to record the expected duration of the journey. This is a requirement of Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1/2005 (O.J. L3, 5.1.2005, p.1) on the protection of animals during transport and related operations.\nA Regulatory Appraisal has been prepared. Copies can be obtained from the Department for Environment, Planning and Countryside, Welsh Assembly Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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