{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-order-northern-ireland-2009/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-order-northern-ireland-2009/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/411",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-order-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Inventory of animals",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of Article 101 of the Council Regulation, a person by whom a record is required to be kept under this Order shall annually check, on a date during the reconciliation period, the total numbers of animals on the holding including the categories, to which they belong, the occupation of the keeper and the type of production.\n(2) The keeper of an animal shall record, by the end of the reconciliation period each year, the particulars specified in the holding register.\n(3) The findings of an annual inventory carried out in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be communicated to the Department in such form and manner as it may from time to time determine.\n(4) However, the inventory required under this Article shall be optional for any keeper—\n(a) who is authorised in accordance with Article 18; and\n(b) where the centralised computer database contains the identification mark of each animal kept on the holding.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 19(1) substituted (24.1.2025) by The Animals (Identification, Records, Movement and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/11), regs. 1(1), 6(18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 19 in operation at 31.12.2009, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/411/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:29.222326+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."
}