{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-identification-marking-and-breeding-records-order-1990/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-identification-marking-and-breeding-records-order-1990/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1867",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-identification-marking-and-breeding-records-order-1990",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Maintenance of approved identification and distinguishing marks",
  "text": "(1) The owner or person in charge of a bovine animal shall maintain its approved identification so that it is clearly legible.\n(2) The owner or person in charge of a bovine animal with a distinguishing mark shall maintain that distinguishing mark so that it is clear and, where appropriate, clearly legible.\n(3) No person shall alter, remove, obliterate or deface or attempt to alter, remove, obliterate or deface an approved identification or a distinguishing mark.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1867/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:06:40.862497+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."
}