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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/279",
  "legislation_title": "Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Replacement eartags",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any person who removes or causes or permits to be removed from any animal—\n(a) an approved eartag in contravention of Article 4.4 or 4.5 of the Council Regulation; or\n(b) an eartag attached under the 1964 Order,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent a person from removing an eartag from an animal under and in accordance with this regulation or with regulation 12(3) or (5).\n(3) If the keeper of an animal (other than the operator of a slaughterhouse) discovers that the characters on an approved eartag attached to that animal have become illegible or that eartag has been lost, he shall, within 28 days of the discovery and in any event before the animal leaves his holding, replace it with an approved eartag of the same type and bearing the same number.\n(4) If the operator of a slaughterhouse discovers that an animal, which should have been identified by eartags in accordance with Article 4.1 of the Council Regulation or the 1964 Order, is not so identified, he shall notify the Department of that fact and shall ensure that the animal is not slaughtered for human consumption unless—\n(a) the eartag or eartags are replaced; or\n(b) under a licence granted by the Department.\n(5) If the keeper of an animal discovers that the characters on an eartag attached to it in accordance with the provisions of the 1964 Order have become illegible or that eartag has been lost, he shall, within 28 days of the discovery and in any event before the animal leaves his holding, attach approved eartags to that animal.\n(6) If an animal brought into Northern Ireland from a member State, Great Britain, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands loses its eartag or if the characters on that eartag have become illegible the keeper shall, within 28 days of the discovery, attach to that animal either—\n(a) a replacement tag from the competent authority for the place where the animal was originally ear-tagged, bearing the same identification number as the original tag, or\n(b) two new approved eartags.\n(7) Any person who contravenes paragraphs (3) to (6) shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 1.10.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/279/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:23:18.391420+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."
}