{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-scotland-regulations-2007/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-scotland-regulations-2007/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2007/174",
  "legislation_title": "The Cattle Identification (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-identification-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Slaughter of animals without identification and traceability",
  "text": "(1) Where the Scottish Ministers order the destruction of an animal under Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 494/98, or under Article 22(2)(d) of Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 they shall serve a notice requiring the keeper to arrange for the animal to be killed and disposed of as specified in the notice.\n(2) Failure to comply with a notice served under paragraph (1) is an offence.\n(3) If a person on whom a notice is served under paragraph (1) fails to comply with the notice, the Scottish Ministers may cause the animal to be killed and disposed of and the amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by them is recoverable from that person.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 substituted (31.12.2011) by (The Cattle Identification (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/412), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(1) inserted (27.5.2017) by The Cattle Identification (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/133), regs. 1, 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/174/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:14:30.555817+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."
}