Regulation 19 Duties on ownersI1

no person shall sell a horse without a passport;

on the sale of a horse, the seller shall give the passport to the buyer or, at auction sales, the auctioneer shall give the passport to the buyer;

the new owner of a horse shall, within 30 days of purchasing it, return the passport to the passport-issuing organisation which issued it, together with details of the name and address of the new owner, and the passport-issuing organisation shall complete Section I of the passport in accordance with its rules for issuing passports;

a person in possession of a passport shall produce it on reasonable demand to the passport-issuing organisation that issued it, and shall surrender it on reasonable demand to that organisation; and

an owner of a horse that dies other than at a slaughterhouse shall send the passport to the passport-issuing organisation which issued it within 30 days of the death.