{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-records-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Making and retention of records",
  "text": "(1) A record required by this Order to be kept shall be made in permanent and legible form.\n(2) A person required to keep a record under Article 3 or 4 shall retain such record from the date of the last entry therein—\n(a) in the case of bovine animals, for a period of 10 years; and\n(b) in the case of goats, sheep or swine, for a period of 3 years.\n(3) A person required to keep a record under Article 5(2) shall retain such record from the date of the last entry therein for a period of 3 years.\n(4) A person required by this Order to keep a record shall on demand by an inspector or a constable produce to him that record and such inspector or constable shall be entitled to inspect that record and take extracts therefrom.\n(5) Where a record required by this Order to be kept is lost, stolen or destroyed the person responsible for the keeping of such record shall within 72 hours of the discovery of that loss, theft or destruction—\n(a) report in writing such occurrence to the Department; and\n(b) make a new record in respect of every animal in his possession at the time of the discovery of that loss, theft or destruction.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in operation at 1.5.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/172",
      "affecting_title": "Animals (Records) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/27",
      "affecting_title": "Cattle Identification (Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/172/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:29.261170+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."
}