{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-travel-scheme-pilot-arrangements-england-amendment-order-2000/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1298",
  "legislation_title": "The Pet Travel Scheme (Pilot Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pet-travel-scheme-pilot-arrangements-england-amendment-order-2000",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Pet Travel Scheme (Pilot Arrangements) (England) Order 1999",
  "text": "(1) The Pet Travel Scheme (Pilot Arrangements) (England) Order 1999 shall be amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) After paragraph 4 of article 6 (treatment against Echinococcus multilocularis and ticks) there shall be inserted—\n“(4A) The treatment against ticks must not be by means of a collar impregnated with acaricide.”.\n(3) After article 6 (health status of the animal) there shall be inserted—\n“Derogation for animals identified outside England\n6A (1) This article applies in the case where the competent authority of a country or territory in Schedule 2 to this Order operates a mandatory identification system for cats or dogs under which—\n(a) the competent authority allocates a unique number to the animal;\n(b) a veterinary surgeon or person authorised by the competent authority to do so tattoos the animal with the unique number and registers that he has done so with the competent authority of the country or territory;\n(c) the competent authority issues a certificate of registration for the animal which records the unique number of the animal;\n(d) the number of any microchip subsequently inserted into the animal by a veterinary surgeon is recorded on the certificate of registration by the competent authority.\n(2) If an animal is marked and registered in accordance with paragraph (1) above then, by way of derogation from the requirement in article 6 above that the animal must be vaccinated and tested after it has been microchipped, the animal may be vaccinated and tested before it has been microchipped provided that it is marked and registered in accordance with the competent authority’s requirements before it is vaccinated and tested; and in this case the declaration required by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to this Order shall provide that—\n(a) the official veterinary surgeon has seen the official registration document which contains the tattoo number and microchip number of the animal concerned and also the record of rabies vaccination which confirms that the animal was vaccinated against rabies, and (in the case of re-vaccination) indicates that the latest vaccination was carried out on or before the date of expiry of the previous vaccination in accordance with the recommendation in the manufacturer’s data sheet and that the latest vaccination is valid;\n(b) the official veterinary surgeon has seen a record (certified by the laboratory carrying out the test) of the result of a serological test for the animal, carried out on a blood sample taken on (date) … after the first vaccination referred to above, and in a laboratory recognised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the purpose, which states that the rabies neutralising antibody titre was equal to or greater than 0.5 IU/ml.\n(c) the animal showed no clinical signs of rabies at the time of certification.”.\n(3) In article 9(1), the words “all three certificates required under the provisions of this Order” shall be replaced with “the two health certificates required under article 7(1) above and the declaration required under article 7(5) above”.\n(4) In article 10(3) the words “all health certificates required under this Order” shall be replaced with “the two health certificates required under article 7(1) above and the declaration required under article 7(5) above”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3443."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1298/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:05.045102+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."
}