{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horse-passports-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Powers and duties of passport-issuing organisation",
  "text": "(1) The passport-issuing organisation is “the competent authority” for the purposes of the passport.\n(2) A passport-issuing organisation may cancel a passport issued by it if it is satisfied on reasonable grounds that–\n(a) the provisions of these Regulations have not been or are not being complied with; or\n(b) the owner has left the passport incomplete or it has been falsified in any way.\n(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.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 16.5.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/217",
      "affecting_title": "The Horse Passports (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/217",
      "affecting_title": "The Horse Passports (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/223/regulation/5",
    "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."
}