{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Imports from third countries",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, in contravention of Article 4.3 of the Council Regulation, fails to attach eartags to an animal imported from a third country within 20 days of the animal passing the checks specified in Council Directive 91/496/EEC (laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community) shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) It shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under paragraph (1) to prove that—\n(a) when the animal to which the offence relates was imported, the holding of destination was a slaughterhouse, and\n(b) the animal was slaughtered within 20 days of undergoing the checks referred to in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in operation at 1.10.1998, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 56 as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/279",
      "affecting_title": "Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2019/82",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2020/353",
      "affecting_title": "The Animals (Health, Identification, Trade and Veterinary Medicines) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/416",
      "affecting_title": "Cattle Identification (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2019/82",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/11",
      "affecting_title": "The Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/279/regulation/9",
    "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."
}