{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-passport-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-passport-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/324",
  "legislation_title": "Cattle Passport Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattle-passport-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Cattle from other member States, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands",
  "text": "(1) If an animal is brought to a holding of destination in Northern Ireland from a member State, Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands the keeper shall, subject to paragraph (2), within 7 days of its arrival at that holding, and in any event before the animal leaves that holding, surrender the cattle passport accompanying the animal to the Department.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require the keeper of any animal to surrender to the Department a passport relating to it where—\n(a) the holding of destination was a slaughterhouse, and\n(b) the animal was slaughtered within seven days of its arrival at the slaughterhouse,\nbut in such a case the keeper shall give any cattle passport accompanying the animal to the official veterinary surgeon for the slaughterhouse, or his representative, at the time of slaughter.\n(3) Any person who fails to surrender a cattle passport as required by paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 3.9.1999, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2020/324",
      "affecting_title": "The Agriculture, Animals and Aquaculture (Health, Identification, Welfare, Trade etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/324/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:37.972538+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."
}