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					<dc:description>These Regulations replace the Official Controls (Animals, Food and Feed) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/196 (W.15)) and substantially amend the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252)).</dc:description>
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<CitationSubRef id="c00037" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/wsi/2020/44/section/56/1" SectionRef="section-56-1">section 56(1)</CitationSubRef> was amended by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2011/1043" id="c00038" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2011" Number="1043">S.I. 2011/1043</Citation>, and prospectively amended by paragraph 17 of Schedule 8 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 from a date and time to be appointed.</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c23965291" Type="M"><Para><Text>OJ No. L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1, as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 241).</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>