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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-21",
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  "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": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Consignments of products likely to constitute a risk to animal or human health",
  "text": "If the official controls at the border control post indicate that the consignment is likely to constitute a danger to animal or human health, the official veterinary surgeon or the official fish inspector (as the case may be) must immediately place the consignment under official detention and order that the person responsible for the consignment destroy it or arrange special treatment in accordance with Article 71 of the Official Controls Regulation at that person’s expense.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 substituted (31.1.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/44), regs. 1(2), 23(19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1612), regs. 1(3), 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/2379/regulation/21",
    "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."
}