{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Organisations authorised to issue passports",
  "text": "The following organisations are authorised to issue passports (and any such organisation is referred to in these Regulations as a “passport issuing organisation”)–\n(a) organisations which maintain or establish stud-books for registered horses and which are recognised by the Scottish Ministers or by any other authority in the United Kingdom competent to recognise such organisations under regulation 3 of the Horses (Zootechnical Standards) Regulations 1992;\n(b) organisations recognised in another part of the United Kingdom or another Member State under legislation which implements either–\n(i) Commission Decision 92/353/EC (laying down the criteria for approval or recognition of organisations and associations which maintain or establish stud-books for registered equidae); or\n(ii) Commission Decision 2000/68/EC (amending Commission Decision 93/623/EEC and establishing the identification of equidae for breeding and production); and\n(c) international associations or organisations which manage or regulate horses for competition or racing and which are registered with the Scottish Ministers under regulation 4.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 16.5.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3045."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 192, 11.7.92, p. 63."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 23, 28.1.00, p.72."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/223/regulation/3",
    "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."
}