{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-order-2009/article-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-order-2009/article-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3219",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (England) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-england-order-2009",
  "path": "article/38",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Alteration of identification marks",
  "text": "No person may alter, obliterate or deface the information on any identification mark attached to an animal under—\n(a) the Council Regulation;\n(b) this Order or any provision that gives effect to the Council Regulation in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland;\n(c) the previous Orders; or\n(d) Council Directive 92/102/EEC, in the case of an animal marked in a member State in accordance with that Directive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 38(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Livestock (Records, Identification and Movement) (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1238), regs. 1, 3(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3219/article/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:54.095920+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."
}