{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/776",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations (EUR 2005/1).\nRegulation 2 amends Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 to exclude birds of the species Gallus gallus and turkeys from the prohibition in paragraph 1.8(d) of Chapter 3 (technical rules: transport practices) on the lifting of animals by the legs. It also makes alternative provision in relation to catching, lifting and carrying of birds of the species Gallus gallus and turkeys.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available on legislation.gov.uk and from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1 4DF.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/776/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:14:10.511074+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."
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