{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/177",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-in-animals-and-related-products-scotland-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Destination outside Great Britain",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a consignment brought into a border control post in Scotland but which is intended for an ultimate destination outside Great Britain.\n(2) In the case of an imported animal, the person notifying its importation under regulation 12 must provide documentary evidence that the country or territory of destination will accept the animal, and the official veterinarian at the border control post may reject the animal if this is not provided.\n(3) Products that arrive at a border control post for an ultimate destination outside Great Britain and which are subject to animal health check requirements under regulation 13(3)(a), may be taken directly from the border control post to the destination outside Great Britain without a CHED, so long as the products do not remain for more than three days at an airport border control post or 30 days at a sea port border control post.\n(3A) Product that are not subject to import check requirements, and which arrive at a border control post for an ultimate destination outside Great Britain, may be taken directly from the border control post to their destination without a CHED, so long as the products do not remain at the border control post for more than 90 days.\n(4) If a consignment is intended to be sent to a destination in the British Islands, and the importation of the product into any of the territories of the British Islands is not permitted, the official veterinarian must reject the consignment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(13)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(13)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(13)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(13)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(13)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 16(3) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/412), regs. 1(1), 24(15)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(3) substituted (13.12.2022) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment and Legislative Functions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1322), regs. 2, 6(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 16(3A) inserted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/412), regs. 1(1), 24(15)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(13)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Animals and Related Products (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/458), regs. 1(3), 2(13)(d)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/177/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:43:52.526570+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."
}