{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2015/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2015/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1992",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2015",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Identification of goats",
  "text": "(1) Where a goat is on its holding of birth and has not been identified before 1 January 2016 the keeper must, if they have not identified it in accordance with Part 3, identify it within the time limits specified in article 9(3), with either—\n(a) two eartags;\n(b) an eartag and a pastern tag; or\n(c) an eartag and a tattoo.\n(2) The identification code on a means of identification must be—\n(a) the letters “UK”; and\n(b) a 12 digit number in accordance with a numbering scheme prescribed by the Welsh Ministers;\nand must be identical on the first and second means of identification.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 in force at 1.1.2016, see art. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1992/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:07.878471+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."
}