{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transponders",
  "text": "(1) The minimum qualification for the purposes of Article 18(3) (implantation of a transponder) is membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.\n(2) ... The owner of a horse or, if different, the keeper who has primary responsibility for it, must arrange for a veterinary surgeon to implant a transponder into a horse that is deemed to be identified ... if a previously implanted and recorded transponder ceases to function.\n(3) A veterinary surgeon who implants a transponder into a horse must ensure that it displays a code unique to that transponder.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2) omitted (31.8.2022) by virtue of The Equine Identification (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/200), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2) omitted (31.8.2022) by virtue of The Equine Identification (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/200), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}