{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-england-regulations-2018/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-england-regulations-2018/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/761",
  "legislation_title": "The Equine Identification (England) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-england-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Article” means an Article of the EU Regulation;\n“compliance notice” has the meaning given in regulation 39;\n“designated area” means an area described as such in regulation 17;\n“enforcement costs” means the costs which a person is required to pay under an enforcement costs recovery notice;\n“enforcement costs recovery notice” has the meaning given in regulation 42;\n“enforcing authority” means a local authority falling within regulation 33;\n“equine” means a wild, semi-wild or domesticated soliped within the genus Equus of the family Equidae and their crosses;\n“EU Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/262 of 17 February 2015 laying down rules pursuant to Council Directives 90/427/EEC and 2009/156/EC as regards the methods for the identification of equidae, as amended from time to time;\n“fixed monetary penalty” has the meaning given in regulation 41;\n“fixed monetary penalty notice” has the meaning given in regulation 41;\n“ID” means the identification document for the identification of an equine in accordance with the EU Regulation and these Regulations;\n“inspector” means a person appointed as such under regulation 34 or under the Animal Health Act 1981 ;\n“issuing body” means an issuing body referred to in Article 5(1);\n“keeper” has the meaning given in Article 2;\n“non-compliance penalty” has the meaning given in regulation 40;\n“non-compliance penalty notice” has the meaning given in regulation 40;\n“offender” has the meaning given in regulation 37(1);\n“owner” has the meaning given in Article 2;\n“responsible person” means—\n(a)the owner; or\n(b)if the owner does not have primary day-to-day responsibility for the equine concerned, the keeper;\n“transponder” has the meaning given in Article 2;\n“wild or semi-wild equine” means an equine falling within regulation 17(1);\n“within 24 hours” means before the end of the period of 24 hours beginning with the time at which—\n(c)for the purposes of regulation 15(1)(a), the information is created or amended;\n(d)for the purposes of regulation 15(1)(b), the issuing body receives the Secretary of State's request; or\n(e)for the purposes of regulation 18, the wild or semi-wild equine enters onto the holding area,\nbut not including any time that is not part of a working day; and for this purpose “working day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (11.1.2019) by The Equine Identification (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1409), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 59, 3.3.2015, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 224, 18.8.1990, p.55. The directive was amended by Council Directive 2008/73/EC of 15 July 2008 (OJ No. L 219, 14.8.2008, p.40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "OJ No. L 192, 23.7.2010, p.1. The directive was amended by Council Directive 2013/20/EU of 13 May 2013 (OJ No. L 158, 10.6.2013, p234 and by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1840 of 14 October 2016 (OJ No. L 280, 18.10.2016, p.33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1981 c.22."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/761/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:21.740111+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."
}