{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-identification-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-identification-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2000/418",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats Identification (Scotland) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-identification-scotland-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Notification of holdings where sheep or goats are kept",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, any person who keeps sheep or goats on a holding in Scotland shall, within one month after the coming into force of these Regulations or, as the case may be, within one month after the keeper begins to keep sheep or goats notify, the Scottish Ministers in writing of the details in paragraph (3) below.\n(2) Any person who has given notification in relation to the keeping of sheep or goats in accordance with article 3 of the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1996 shall not require to comply with paragraph (1) above and for the purposes of these Regulations that notification shall be deemed to be a notification under paragraph (1) above.\n(3) Details to be notified in accordance with paragraph (1) above are—\n(a) the address of the holding;\n(b) the name and address of the occupier of the holding; and\n(c) whether sheep or goats or both are usually kept on the holding.\n(4) Any person keeping sheep or goats on a holding in Scotland shall notify the Scottish Ministers in writing of any change in the details specified in paragraph (3) above within one month of such change.\n(5) Following a notification, or a deemed notification under this regulation the Scottish Ministers may allocate to that keeper’s holding a flockmark in the case of sheep or a herdmark in the case of goats.\n(6) The Scottish Ministers may from time to time alter or issue a new herdmark or flockmark to a keeper.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/28."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/418/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:48:56.194188+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."
}