Article 3 Provision for the resting of horses before export
Subject to the provisions of this order, it shall be unlawful to ship or attempt to ship or cause or permit to be shipped any horse from any place in Great Britain to any place outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, unless immediately before being loaded in the vessel or aircraft in which it is to be carried it has been rested by detention for the rest period defined by the succeeding paragraph of this Article on premises (hereinafter referred to as “approved premises”) which are:—
at or near the place of loading;
provided with adequate protection against the weather;
provided with facilities, including adequate lighting, to allow satisfactory supervision of horses throughout the detention period and for each horse to be individually inspected;
provided with suitable facilities for tying horses; and
approved in writing for that purpose, in England and Wales by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or in Scotland by the Secretary of State, which approval may be granted subject to such conditions as to the duration of the approval and otherwise as the said Minister or the Secretary of State may see fit to impose, and in particular subject to a condition (in addition to any limitation imposed by Article 4(b)(v) hereof) limiting the total number of horses to be rested on the premises at any one time.
The rest period shall be a period of not less than 10 hours which shall include at least 3 consecutive hours between sunrise and sunset, and in respect of any horse detained on approved premises in any pen or enclosure shall commence at the time of entry into such pen or enclosure of the last horse of the group to be rested thereon.
Provided always that if during the rest period of any horses, other horses are introduced into the pen or enclosure where horses already resting are detained, then the rest period of the horses already detained therein shall be deemed to have commenced at the time of the entry of the last of the horses so introduced.
It shall be unlawful to load into any vessel or aircraft any horse required to be rested under this Article unless at the time of loading it is accompanied by a certificate signed by the person having charge of the approved premises on which the horses has been rested in accordance with the requirements of this Article to the effect that it was detained there throughout the whole of the rest period specified in the certificate.