{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-animals-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Records of calves at markets",
  "text": "(1) No person shall bring a calf to a market unless upon arrival he has furnished the market operator with a written declaration signed by the owner of the calf or his duly authorised agent stating—\n(a) the name and address of the owner of the calf;\n(b) the ear tag number of the calf;\n(c) that the calf has not been brought to a market before or, as the case may be, has been brought to a market only once during the previous 28 days; and\n(d) where the calf has been brought to a market once during the previous 28 days, the address of the market and the date on which the calf was brought there.\n(2) Where a calf has been sold, and before its removal from the market, the market operator shall—\n(a) in the case of a sale by auction; and\n(b) upon request made by the purchaser, in the case of a sale by private treaty;\nsupply to the purchaser of the calf details in writing of—\n(i) the ear tag of the calf;\n(ii) the date of the sale of the calf and the address of the market at which it was sold; and\n(iii) where the calf has been brought to a market once within the previous 28 days, the address of that market and the date on which the calf was brought there.\n(3) Every market operator shall keep a record of the details supplied to a purchaser of a calf for the purposes of paragraph (2) above and of the name and address of that purchaser.\n(4) In this article, “calf” means a bovine animal under 12 weeks of age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/12/article/6",
    "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."
}