{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-transport-order-1997/schedule-9/paragraph-2",
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  "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/9/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Authorisation holder to be a fit person",
  "text": "(1) A specific authorisation shall be granted on the application of any person if he satisfies the Minister that he is a fit person to transport animals.\n(2) In determining whether a transporter applying for a specific authorisation is a fit person to transport animals, the Minister shall have regard to any circumstances appearing to him to be relevant, and in particular any evidence tending to show that the applicant, or any of the applicant’s employees, agents or associates (whether past or present) or, where the applicant is a body corporate, any person appearing to the Minister to be a controller of the body corporate or an associate of any such person, has—\n(a) committed any offence involving animal welfare,\n(b) contravened any provision of this Order or any other Order made under section 37, 38 or 39 of the Animal Health Act 1981; or\n(c) previously been responsible for anything which would cause the Minister to revoke or suspend an authorisation under the provisions of the following paragraph.\n(3) A person operating under an authorisation, whether specific or general, shall give to an officer of the Minister such information as the Minister may reasonably require concerning the transport under the authorisation; and failure to provide such information, or providing false information, shall be an offence against the Animal Health Act 1981.\n(4) A holder of a specific authorisation who intends to transport vertebrate animals under a trading name different from that specified in the authorisation shall notify the Minister of the name before he transports any animals under that name.",
  "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/9/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}