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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-amendment-order-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-amendment-order-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (England) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3219) which implements Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (OJ No L 5, 9.1.2004. p 8).\nArticles 3, 4 and 5 of this Order provide for the use of injectable transponders as a means of identifying goats.\nArticle 6 requires a sheep intended for slaughter before the age of 12 months to be identified with an electronic eartag.\nArticle 7 makes a minor amendment to the requirements for entries in holding registers.\nArticle 8 requires abattoirs, markets, collection centres and assembly centres to report movements of sheep electronically and allows other keepers to do so. Articles 8 and 9 also make consequential amendments in relation to movement documents.\nArticle 10 removes the power of local authorities to allow markets to receive incorrectly identified animals.\nArticle 11 amends the provisions governing the operation of markets, collection centres, assembly centres and abattoirs when circumstances prevent normal recording and reporting of information.\nArticle 12 requires the Secretary of State to review the operation and effect of these Regulations, and lay a report before Parliament within five years after they come into force and within every five years after that. Following a review it will fall to the Secretary of State to consider whether the Regulations should remain as they are, or be revoked or be amended. A further instrument would be needed to revoke the Regulations or to amend them.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, and the voluntary sector is available on the Defra website (www.gov.uk/defra) or from the Department for Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on (www.legislation.gov.uk).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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