{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/identification-and-notification-of-cattle-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/identification-and-notification-of-cattle-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/420",
  "legislation_title": "Identification and Notification of Cattle Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/identification-and-notification-of-cattle-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "text": "(1) The Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 shall be amended as provided in this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 2(1) for the definition of “the Council Regulation” there shall be substituted the following definition –\n““the Council Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 820/97;”.\n(3) After regulation 7 there shall be inserted the following regulation –\n“Transfer of ear tags\n7A A person shall not, except with the permission of the Department –\n(a) transfer an ear tag attached to an animal under Article 4.1 of the Council Regulation or under the provisions of the 1964 Order, from an animal or a carcase to any other animal\nor\n(b) use for identifying any animal an eartag which has at any time already been used for identifying any other animal.”.\n(4) In regulation 15(1) –\n(a) for the words “Article 21” there shall be substituted the words “Article 22.1”; and\n(b) after the word “cattle” there shall be inserted the words “to or”.\n(5) After regulation 17(2) there shall be added the following paragraph –\n“(3) For the purposes of Article 18(6) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 any offence against these Regulations shall be deemed to be an offence against that Order.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1998 No. 279 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 324"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/420/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:55:52.193103+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."
}