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Regulation 5 Powers and duties of passport-issuing organisationI1

Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The passport-issuing organisation is “the competent authority” for the purposes of the passport.

(2)

A passport-issuing organisation may cancel a passport issued by it if it is satisfied on reasonable grounds that–

(a)

the provisions of these Regulations have not been or are not being complied with; or

(b)

the owner has left the passport incomplete or it has been falsified in any way.

(3)

When a passport is returned because a horse has died, the passport issuing organisation shall mark the passport accordingly but may then return it to the owner if permitted by its rules.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 5 in force at 16.5.2005, see reg. 1(1)