{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-494/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-494/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1998/494",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 494/98 of 27 February 1998 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97 as regards the application of minimum administrative sanctions in the framework of the system for the identification and registration of bovine animals",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-494",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If a keeper does not pay the charge referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 820/97, the appropriate Minister may withhold or refuse the issue of passports to that keeper. In cases of persistent failure by a keeper to pay that charge, the appropriate Minister may also restrict the movement of animals to and from the holding of that keeper in accordance with Article 21 of that Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Livestock (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/814), regs. 1, 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1998/494/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:58:25.686699+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."
}