{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/11",
  "legislation_title": "The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-1995",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Licensing of collecting centres",
  "text": "(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to operate a collecting centre for pigs unless the centre is a market or assembly centre approved under regulation 5 of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1993 or it is licensed under this article.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4) below, an inspector of a local authority may issue a licence authorising the use of any premises as a collecting centre for pigs.\n(3) A licence under paragraph (2) above shall specify that it applies—\n(a) to pigs intended for fattening or for breeding; or\n(b) to pigs intended for immediate slaughter; or\n(c) to pigs intended for direct export to anywhere other than a member State,\nwhich are accompanied by a declaration in the form set out in Schedule 2 or a licence in the form set out in Schedule 7.\n(4) An inspector shall not issue a licence under paragraph (2) above unless—\n(a) the conditions specified in article 13(2)(a) are met in relation to those premises;\n(b) no pig will remain there for a period of more than six days; and\n(c) for at least one day no pig will remain on the premises after the premises have been so used for a continuous period of six days.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.) (31.10.2003) by The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2632), arts. 1, 28(2); and revoked (W.) (31.3.2004) by The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/996), arts. 1, 28(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in force at 30.1.1995, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/11/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:19:16.968084+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."
}