{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2015/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-records-identification-and-movement-wales-order-2015/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Colour of identification devices",
  "text": "(1) All electronic identification devices, other than replacement devices and boluses, must be yellow and no keeper may apply a yellow identification device that is not electronic.\n(2) No person may attach a red identification device to any animal, other than a replacement identification device.\n(3) Where a keeper re-identifies an animal and that animal is not on its holding of birth, or the keeper does not know the holding of birth, they must use a red replacement identification device but the requirement to use a red identification device does not apply to the use of boluses.\n(4) Where an animal is identified by means of a bolus and a second identification device that second device must be black and a black identification device may only be used in combination with a bolus.\n(5) The characters on all identification devices must be a different colour from the background of the device and must be clearly legible at all times when the device is attached to an animal.\n(6) The fixing mechanism of a yellow, red or black eartag may be of any colour.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}