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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-wales-order-2008/note/enacted",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1270",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Animal Pathogens (Wales) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-animal-pathogens-wales-order-2008/enacted",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/463) as it applies to Wales.\nThe principal change is to provide for additional powers for inspectors (Schedule 2).\nAs in the previous Order, it provides that possession of an animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1, or introduction into an animal of an animal pathogen specified in Parts 1 and 2 of that Schedule, requires a licence from the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1270/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T03:54:03.394539+00:00"
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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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