{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-special-premium-regulations-2001/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-special-premium-regulations-2001/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2503",
  "legislation_title": "The Beef Special Premium Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-special-premium-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "National administrative documents",
  "text": "(1) A national administrative document shall take the form of a document accompanying each individual bovine animal in accordance with Article 4(3)(a) of Commission Regulation 2342/1999.\n(2) A person holding a bovine animal for which no national administrative document has been issued may apply to the appropriate authority for a national administrative document for that bovine animal.\n(3) An application for a national administrative document shall be made in such form, and shall be accompanied by such information about the bovine animal to which that application relates, as the appropriate authority may reasonably require.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the appropriate authority shall, following the receipt of an application made pursuant to paragraph (2), issue to the person who made that application a national administrative document in respect of the bovine animal to which that application related.\n(5) The appropriate authority shall not issue a national administrative document in respect of any bovine animal where any requirement of Article 4 of Regulation 1760/2000, Articles 1 to 3 of Commission Regulation 2629/97 or Part II of the Cattle Identification Regulations 1998 (eartags) is being contravened in relation to that bovine animal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2503/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:41:03.356445+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."
}