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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-wales-regulations-2001/schedule-6/paragraph-49",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2001/2682",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-wales-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If pigs unfamiliar with one another have to be mixed, this should be done at as young an age as possible, preferably before or up to one week after weaning. When pigs are mixed they shall be provided with adequate opportunities to escape and hide from other pigs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 substituted (14.7.2003) by The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1726), regs. 1(2), 3(4) (with reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/2682/schedule/6/paragraph/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:15:59.986548+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."
}