{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-regulations-2011/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-regulations-2011/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1197",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Border Control Posts",
  "text": "(1) A border control post is a place, together with the facilities contained at that place, that has been designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with Article 59 of the Official Controls Regulation.\n(2) If at any time the relevant authority is of the opinion that any part of the inspection facilities at the border control post no longer complies with the requirements for approval, the relevant authority may, in accordance with Articles 61 to 63 of the Official Controls Regulation, serve a notice on the operator—\n(a) specifying the breach;\n(b) providing a time limit within which the conditions must be complied with; and\n(c) prohibiting the use of that part of the facilities until the conditions of the approval are complied with.\n(3) If the notice is not complied with, the Secretary of State may suspend the approval in relation to that part of the inspection facilities.\n(4) If the operator of a border control post is determined by the relevant authority to be in serious breach of the requirements relating to the performance of official controls for any of the categories of animal or product for which it has been designated, or the conditions of the approval, or if the operation of the border control post creates a risk to human or animal health or animal welfare, the Secretary of State must suspend the approval of the border control post and order its activities to cease for all, or specified, categories of animal or product ....\n(5) In paragraph (2), “the relevant authority” means—\n(a) in relation to animals, the Secretary of State; or\n(b) in relation to products, the district council.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1488), regs. 1(1), 26(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 9(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 9(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1197/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:07:56.598693+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."
}