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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-england-regulations-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/731",
  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-england-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Approval of TSE testing laboratories",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must approve laboratories to test samples taken under these Regulations if satisfied that the laboratory—\n(a) will carry out the testing in accordance with Chapter C of Annex 10, and\n(b) has adequate quality control procedures in place, which include being able to accurately identify the correct identification of the samples and notification of test results.\n(2) A laboratory approved under corresponding legislation elsewhere in the United Kingdom is treated as an approved testing laboratory.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 9(1) inserted (17.9.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/942), regs. 1(2), 55"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1120), regs. 1(1), 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/731/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:37.442602+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."
}