{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Horse Passports (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Prohibitions",
  "text": "(1) No person other than a passport issuing organisation acting in the course of its duties shall without lawful authority–\n(a) destroy or deface a passport;\n(b) alter any entry made in Section I of the passport;\n(c) alter any of the details in Sections II or III of the passport unless authorised in writing to do so by a passport-issuing organisation;\n(d) make an entry in Section IV of the passport except in accordance with the rules and regulations of a passport-issuing organisation, and no person shall alter any entry; or\n(e) alter any details in Sections V, VI, VII, VIII or IX of the passport.\n(2) No person shall without lawful authority possess a passport which that person knows to be false.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 16.5.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/223/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:26:08.434179+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."
}