{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2019/67",
  "legislation_title": "The Equine Identification Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Offences in relation to passports",
  "text": "(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the person, otherwise than in accordance with any entitlement, obligation or requirement to do so in these Regulations or the Commission Delegated Regulation —\n(a) destroys or defaces a passport;\n(b) alters any entry in a passport;\n(c) makes a forged passport; or\n(d) is knowingly in possession of a forged passport.\n(2) Paragraph 1(d) does not apply if the person, at the time concerned, holds a forged passport simply for the purpose of destroying it or providing it to an authorised officer, the police or the Department.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (31.8.2022) by The Equine Identification (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/200), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in operation at 29.3.2019, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/67/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:10.294581+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."
}