{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-wales-regulations-2011/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-wales-regulations-2011/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/2379",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS, WALES\nMade 28 September 2011\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 28 September 2011\nComing into force 19 October 2011\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of making Regulations under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the references to the European instruments in Schedule 1 to these Regulations to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.\nIn accordance with section 56(1) of the Finance Act 1973 , the Treasury consent to the making of these Regulations.\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2690."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Paragraph 1A was inserted into Schedule 2 by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1973 c. 51 The Welsh Ministers may exercise this power by virtue of section 59(5) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations applied in part (with modifications) (25.2.2025) by The Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/217), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/2379/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:25.919681+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."
}