{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-wales-order-2007/article-5",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/1047",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Wales) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-wales-order-2007",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transport",
  "text": "(1) A person who fails to comply with any of the following provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 is guilty of an offence against the Act—\n(a) Article 3 (general conditions for the transport of animals);\n(b) Article 4(1) (Article 4 relates to transport documentation);\n(c) Article 5(1) (Article 5 relates to planning obligations for the transport of animals);\n(d) Article 6(1) (Article 6 relates to transporters);\n(e) from 5 January 2008, Article 6(5);\n(f) Article 7 (prior inspection and approval of means of transport);\n(g) points 1.8, 1.9 or 1.11 of Chapter III of Annex I (Chapter III relates to transport practices).\n(2) No person is to remove, deface, obliterate or alter a mark made under paragraph (3) of article 24 (powers of inspectors).\n(3) Copies of the documentation referred to in Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 must be kept for 6 months from the completion of the journey.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 30.3.2007, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/1047/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:05.417812+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."
}