# The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2008, Article 17: Replacement of the identification mark with a different code for double-tagged animals which have lost one identification mark


(1) This article applies where one identification mark from a double-identified animal is lost or illegible but one legible identification mark remains.
(2) In this article and article 18 “double-identified animal” means an animal identified with two identification marks.
(3) If the animal is on its holding of birth the keeper must replace a lost or illegible means of identification or older means of identification with another means of identification and —
(a) ensure that at least one means of identification or older means of identification on an animal is an eartag; and
(b) record information about the addition of the new means of identification including in full the identification code on the replacement tags in columns 1 and 2 of section 2 of the register.
(4) If the animal is no longer on its holding of birth the keeper must replace a lost or illegible identification mark with a replacement means of identification and
(a) ensure that at least one identification mark on an animal is an eartag; and
(b) record information about the replacement including the full identification code on the replacement means of identification in columns 1 and 2 of section 2 of the register.
(c) record the letters and flockmark or herdmark on the remaining means of identification or older means of identification, or the full code on a method of identification in column 3 of section 2 of the register.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/130/article/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2008/article-17
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