{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spring-traps-approval-variation-wales-order-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2021/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Spring Traps Approval (Variation) (Wales) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spring-traps-approval-variation-wales-order-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals, Wales\nPrevention Of Cruelty\nMade 15 June 2021\nComing into force 7 July 2021\nThe Welsh Ministers make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(3) and (7) of the Pests Act 1954 and now vested in them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 68. Section 8(7) was amended by section 1(1) of, and Part 8 of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "All functions of a Minister of the Crown in the Pests Act 1954 were transferred, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/709/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:19.194166+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."
}