{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/177",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Appointment of official veterinarians and official fish inspectors",
  "text": "(1) The enforcement authority must appoint suitably trained veterinary surgeons for the purpose of carrying out regulatory functions under these Regulations at border control posts.\n(2) If the approval for a border control post permits the importation of fishery products, aquatic invertebrates, live bivalve molluscs, live enchinoderms, live tunicates and live marine gastropods intended for human consumption, the local authority may appoint suitably trained officers to be official fish inspectors for that post in relation to fish and fishery products, and that inspector has all the powers of an official veterinarian in relation to those products.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(2) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/412), regs. 1(1), 24(10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/177/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:43:52.526570+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."
}