The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006

Made: 21 December 2006

Coming into force: 31 December 2006

The National Assembly for Wales is designated[^f00001] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[^f00002] in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community.

Title, application and commencement

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006.

• (2) These regulations apply in relation to Wales.

• (3) These regulations come into force on 31 December 2006.

Amendment to the Animal and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) Regulations 2006

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• (1) The Animal and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) Regulations 2006[^f00003] are amended in accordance with this regulation.

• (2) In regulation 16(4), for “1 January 2007” substitute “1 April 2007”.

Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[^f00004]

Rhodri Morgan AC/AM — First Minister for Wales — 21 December 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1536 (W. 153)) (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends the principal Regulations to give effect to the extension of the European Union ban, under Commission Decision 2005/760/EC (OJ L. No. 285, 28.10.2005, p. 52) as amended, on the import of captive birds from third countries until 31 March 2007.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2005/2766.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2006/1536 (W. 153).

[^f00004]: 1998 c. 38.