{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-32.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": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) At a border control post these Regulations are enforced—\n(a) in relation to animals by the Welsh Ministers; and\n(b) in relation to products by the local authority.\n(2) Outside a border control post, in relation to animals (other than in relation to aquatic animals) they are enforced by the local authority.\n(2A) Outside a border control post, official controls in relation to aquatic animals are enforced by the Welsh Ministers.\n(3) Outside a border control post, in relation to products they are enforced by—\n(a) the local authority; or\n(b) by the Food Standards Agency at any cutting plant, game-handling establishment or slaughterhouse, or premises at which the Agency enforces the Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006 .\n(4) In addition, in relation to products they are enforced by a general customs official in any place (other than the inspection facilities in a border control post) where goods are subject to customs supervision by that official under the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018.\n(5) The Welsh Ministers may direct, in relation to cases of a particular description or a particular case, that the Welsh Ministers may discharge any duty imposed on a local authority under this regulation.\n(6) Where a customs officer exercising a statutory function at any place under customs supervision discovers any animal or product suspected of being non-compliant, that officer must detain it and notify such detention to an authorised officer of the relevant enforcement authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32 substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 39(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(2) 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(24)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 32(2A) inserted (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(24)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(4) 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), 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 32(6) 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(24)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/31 (W.5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/2379/regulation/32",
    "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."
}