The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2003

Made: 9th October 2003

Coming into force: 31st October 2003

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PART 1 — Preliminary

Title, application and commencement

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Interpretation

2

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Licences, etc.

3

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PART 2 — Record Keeping

Notification of holdings

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Movement records

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Slaughterhouse records

6

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Sale records at an auction

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Record of number of pigs on a holding

8

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Records retention

9

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PART 3 — Identification Marks

Identification mark

10

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Requirements for eartags

11

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Slapmark

12

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Additional marking

13

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PART 4 — General Identification Requirements

Identification of pigs over 12 months moved off a holding

14

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Identification of pigs under 12 months moved off a holding

15

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Identification of pigs moved on to a holding from outside the European Union

16

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PART 5 — Additional Identification Requirements

Additional identification requirements

17

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Movement of pigs 12 months old or less to a slaughterhouse

18

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Movements of pigs to shows, etc.

19

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Movement of pigs for export

20

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PART 6 — Regulation of Movements

Movement of pigs

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Walking licences for pet pigs

22

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Approved holdings

23

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PART 7 — Miscellaneous

Removal of an identification mark

24

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Replacement of an identification mark

25

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Production of documents and records

26

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Enforcement

27

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Revocations

28

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SCHEDULE — HOLDING MOVEMENT RECORD

Name and address of person keeping the record

Signed

Ben Bradshaw — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 9th October 2003

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 22. Functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141) and were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2003/1729.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2002/2154.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2003/28.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1995/11, as amended.

Name and address of person keeping the record

Editorial notes

[^key-dd1c7c16ebe2bd8bb374f00add8e9d35]: Order revoked (6.4.2007) by The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/642), arts. 1, 19

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