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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zootechnical-standards-wales-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2018/1152",
  "legislation_title": "The Zootechnical Standards (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zootechnical-standards-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Animals, Wales\nAnimal Health\nMade 6 November 2018\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 9 November 2018\nComing into force 1 December 2018\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union.\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the references in these Regulations to provisions of EU instruments to be construed as references to those provisions as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2690."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/1152/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}