{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/12",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Prohibition on alteration etc of identification marks",
  "text": "It shall not be lawful—\n(a) to alter, obliterate or deface or attempt to alter, obliterate or deface an ear tag (other than an ear tag which has been attached to the animal in accordance with article 11(2)) or, subject to article 12, to remove an ear tag; or\n(b) to alter, remove, obliterate or deface or attempt to alter, remove, obliterate or deface an approved identification mark applied to the animal under the 1990 Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/871",
      "affecting_title": "The Cattle Identification Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/12/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:19:16.333767+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."
}