{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2015/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2015/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Additional tags and identification devices with additional information",
  "text": "(1) At the request of a keeper, a manufacturer of identification devices may, subject to article 6(2), add supplementary information to an identification device or replacement device provided that—\n(a) the supplementary information is distinct from the identification code; and\n(b) the identification code remains legible and clearly distinguishable at all times.\n(2) A keeper may apply an additional tag to an animal but it must not contain the letters “UK” or bear a flockmark or herdmark, unless authorised by the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}