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(1) The title of these Regulations is The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2022.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1 October 2022 and expire on 1 April 2023
(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales, and extend to England and Wales.
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The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2022 are revoked from 1 October 2022.
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(1) Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the non-commercial movement of pet animals is amended as follows.
(2) In Annex 4 (Validity requirements for the rabies antibody titration test)—
(a) in point 2(b), at the end insert “, except where point 2A applies”;
(b) after point 2, insert—“
2A. 
This point applies where, the Welsh Ministers have administered a test which measures a level of antibody to rabies virus in serum of the animal tested equal to or greater than 0.3 EU/ml and using an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay method that meets the validation standards set out in Chapter 1.1.6 of the Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals 2022;”.
Lesley Griffiths
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers
6 September 2022