{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-wales-regulations-2019/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-wales-regulations-2019/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2019/57",
  "legislation_title": "The Equine Identification (Wales) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equine-identification-wales-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Improper destruction, defacement or alteration, etc",
  "text": "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 EU Regulation—\n(a) destroys or defaces an ID;\n(b) alters any entry in an ID; or\n(c) defaces, obliterates or removes any mark applied under regulation 33, except under the written authority of an inspector.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in force at 12.2.2019, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/57/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:59.464410+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."
}