{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-northern-ireland-2012/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/67",
  "legislation_title": "The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pigs-records-identification-and-movement-order-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Identification of pigs",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (6), a person shall not move a pig off a holding unless it is identified in accordance with this article.\n(2) A pig shall be identified with an ear tag bearing a holding code and an individual identification number by the time it reaches 6 months of age or before it is moved off the holding, whichever is earlier.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply in the case of a pig that is kept for meat production and which is under the age of 6 months. Any such pig may be identified with an ear tag or tattoo.\n(4) When an individual identification number is applied to a pig, the same number shall not be applied to any other pig on the same holding.\n(5) An identification mark applied on a holding shall bear the holding code or curer mark allocated to the keeper of that holding.\n(6) Paragraphs (2) to (5) do not apply to a pig which was identified in accordance with the Aujeszky’s Disease Order (Northern Ireland) 1994.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in operation at 19.3.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/67/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:17:28.300807+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."
}