{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-2011/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2154",
  "legislation_title": "The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which applies in England, continues to implement Council Directive 2008/71/EEC on the identification and registration of pigs (OJ No L 213, 8.8.2008, p 31). It revokes and replaces the Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/642).\nThe principal change is that it requires pre-notification to a central, computerised database of most movements of pigs.\nThe Order requires that a person keeping pigs on a holding must notify the Secretary of State (article 4) and requires a record to be kept (article 5 and the Schedule). Article 24 provides that an inspector is entitled to see these records and require copies.\nArticles 6 to 11 require pigs to be marked with ear tags or tattoos and specify what these identification marks must contain.\nArticles 12 to 20 deal with the procedures for notification of movements and the necessary documentation.\nArticle 21 allows the Secretary of State to exempt some movements from the requirements of the Disease Control (England) Order 2003 (S.I.2003/1729).\nArticles 22 and 23 govern the removal and replacement of identification marks.\nThe Order is enforced by the local authority (article 25).\nArticle 26 provides for a review of this Order within a period of five years and every five years thereafter.\nBreach of the Order is an offence under section 73 of the Animal Health Act 1981, punishable in accordance with section 75 of that Act.\nA full impact assessment of the effects this instrument will have on the costs of the buisiness and voluntary sector and the public sector is published at www.defra.gov.uk/food-farm/animals/movements/pigs .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2154/note",
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  "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."
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