{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-scotland-order-2009/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-scotland-order-2009/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/414",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Scotland) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-scotland-order-2009",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Removal and replacement of means of identification",
  "text": "(1) A person must not remove, unless for the purpose of preventing suffering to an animal, or replace, any means of identification attached to an animal otherwise than in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 4(6) of the Council Regulation.\n(2) Subject to article 27, where the means of identification of an animal has been removed or lost or has become illegible, the keeper, other than a slaughterhouse operator, must apply replacement identification to the animal in accordance with this Order as soon as possible but, in any event—\n(a) before the animal is moved from the holding; and\n(b) no later than 28 days after the identification is ascertained to have been removed or lost or to have become illegible.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in force at 31.12.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/414/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:58:37.700552+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."
}