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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Imported birds",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers are the competent authority for the import of certain birds and quarantine conditions for the purposes of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 139/2013 laying down animal health conditions for imports of certain birds into the Union and the quarantine conditions thereof.\n(2) An importer must comply with Article 7 (transport of birds) of that Regulation.\n(3) No person may release a bird from quarantine except in accordance with Article 16 (release of birds) of that Regulation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 8(1) inserted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/412), regs. 1(1), 24(31)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 2 para. 8(1) substituted (28.2.2019) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(1), 35(8)(b)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/177/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}