{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-order-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-order-1997/schedule-2/paragraph-15.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Restrictions on lifting, dragging and use of force on animals",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of article 6(6), animals shall not be suspended by mechanical means, nor lifted or dragged by the head, horns, legs, tail or fleece.\n(2) No person shall use excessive force to control animals.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, no person shall use—\n(a) any instrument which is capable of inflicting an electric shock to control any animal;\n(b) any stick, goad or other instrument or thing to hit or prod any cattle of six months or under; or\n(c) any stick (other than a flat slap stick or a slap marker), non-electric goad or other instrument or thing to hit or prod any pigs.\n(4) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (3)(a) above shall not apply to the use of any instrument of a kind mentioned in that sub-paragraph, on the hindquarters of any cattle over the age of six months or on adult pigs which are refusing to move forward when there is space for them to do so, but the use of any such instrument shall be avoided as far as possible.\n(5) Nothing in this provision shall prevent the suspension by mechanical means of a receptacle in which an animal is being carried.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1480/schedule/2/paragraph/15",
    "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."
}