{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-order-1997/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-order-1997/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1480",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-order-1997",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Animal Transport Certificate",
  "text": "(1) A transporter shall ensure that, except where a route plan is required, all animals which he is transporting are accompanied throughout the journey (subject to the provisions of Schedule 7 Part II relating to markets) by documentation stating—\n(a) the name and address of the transporter;\n(b) the name and address of the owner of the animals;\n(c) the place that the animals were loaded, and their final destination;\n(d) the date and time the first animal was loaded;\n(e) the date and time of departure; and\n(f) the time and place the requirements for resting periods laid down in Schedule 7 were met.\n(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to the transport of poultry and domestic birds for a distance of 50 km or less where—\n(a) the number of poultry and domestic birds so transported is less than 50, or\n(b) the entire journey is on land occupied by the owner of the poultry and domestic birds.\n(3) In the case of animals which are not cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, horses or poultry and domestic birds, the provisions in paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to journeys of 50 km or less.\n(4) The transporter shall keep a copy of the documentation for a period of 6 months from the completion of the journey, and shall produce it to an inspector on demand and allow copies to be taken.\n(5) Where a copy of the documentation required to be kept in accordance with paragraph (4) above is kept in an electronic or magnetic form, references in that paragraph—\n(a) to production of the copy shall be, if the inspector so requires, references to its production in a written form; and\n(b) to allowing copies to be taken, shall be references to the taking thereof in a written form.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1480/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:16.167162+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."
}