{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spring-traps-approval-variation-wales-order-2023/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spring-traps-approval-variation-wales-order-2023/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2023/1031",
  "legislation_title": "The Spring Traps Approval (Variation) (Wales) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/spring-traps-approval-variation-wales-order-2023",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals, Wales\nMade 20 September 2023\nComing into force 29 September 2023\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/2023/1031/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:03:03.338037+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."
}