{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-regulations-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-regulations-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Cattle Identification Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Confiscation of cattle passports",
  "text": "(1) An officer of the Secretary of State or a local authority may serve a notice on a keeper requiring him to surrender a passport if—\n(a) there is no animal on the holding for that passport;\n(b) the passport does not correctly describe the animal to which it purports to relate, or the passport was issued for a different animal;\n(c) the ear tag number in the passport is different from the ear tag number on the animal;\n(d) the movement details on the passport are not the same as the movement details on the database kept by the Secretary of State in accordance with these Regulations or in the records kept by the keeper in accordance with these Regulations;\nand any person who fails to comply with such a notice is guilty of an offence.\n(2) The Secretary of State may not return a passport until he is satisfied that the passport accurately describes an animal in the possession of the keeper and that the movement entries in the passport are accurate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI+i",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/529/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:04:07.916129+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."
}