The Horse Passports Regulations 2009

Made: 30th June 2009

Laid before Parliament: 6th July 2009

Coming into force: 1st August 2009

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PART 1 — Introduction

Citation, application and commencement

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Meaning of “horse” and “passport”

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PART 2 — Enforcement of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008

Competent authority for Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008

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Sale of horses

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Passports

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Application for duplicate and replacement passports

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Importation

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Detecting previous active marking of horses

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Transponders

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Accompanying documentation

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Movement to slaughter

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Issue of duplicate and replacement passports

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Procedure on death

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Procedure by the passport issuing organisation on death

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Treatment with a veterinary medicinal product

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Databases

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Prohibitions

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Dartmoor, Exmoor and the New Forest

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PART 3 — Powers and penalties

Enforcement

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Powers of entry

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Obstruction

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Penalties

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Offences by bodies corporate

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Offences by partnerships and unincorporated associations

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE — Dartmoor, Exmoor and the New Forest

Application of this Schedule

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Veterinary treatment

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Movement off the designated area

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Signed

Jim Fitzpatrick — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 30th June 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations enforce Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008 in England. They provide for identification of horses, and replace the Horse Passports (England) Regulations 2004.

Part 2 of the Regulations create offences for breach of provisions of the Commission Regulation, and provide for the administration of veterinary medicinal products for horses intended for human consumption. The Schedule makes special provisions for Dartmoor, Exmoor and the New Forest.

Part 3 provides that the Regulations are enforced by the local authority, and gives powers to inspectors of those authorities.

Breach of the Regulations is an offence punishable—

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• (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A full impact assessment has been prepared and placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. It is available on the Defra website at www.defra.gov.uk

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S. I. 1972/1811.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: OJ No L 149, 7.6.2008, p. 3.

[^f00004]: S. I. 1994/867.

[^f00005]: 1981 c. 22.

[^f00006]: 1925 c. 86. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 33 were repealed by the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (c. 55), section 132 and Schedule 6; subsection (3) was amended by the Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), section 56(1) and Schedule 8, part II, paragraph 19; subsection (4) was amended by the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), section 109(1) and (3), Schedule 8, paragraph 71 and Schedule 10, and by the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), section 154 and Schedule 7, paragraph 5; subsection (5) was repealed by the Magistrates’ Court Act 1952, section 132, Schedule 6.

[^f00007]: 1980 c. 43. Sub-paragraph 2(a) was amended by the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25), section 47, Schedule 1, paragraph 13, and was repealed by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), sections 41 and 332, Schedule 3, part 2, paragraph 51, sub-paragraphs (1), (13)(a), and Schedule 37, part 4 (with effect from a date to be appointed); paragraph 5 was repealed by the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), sections 25(2) and 101(2) and Schedule 13; paragraph 6 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, section 41, Schedule 3, part 2, paragraph 51, sub-paragraphs (1) and (13)(b) (with effect from a date to be appointed).

[^f00008]: S.I. 2004/1397.

[^f00009]: The Verderers of the New Forest is a body corporate incorporated under section 22 of the New Forest Act 1977 (c.cxxi).

[^f00010]: The New Forest Pony Breeding and Cattle Society and the Exmoor Pony Society are passport issuing organisations recognised by the Secretary of State under Commission Regulation (EC) No 504/2008.

[^f00011]: The Dartmoor Commoners’ Council was established by section 3(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 (c.xxxvii).

[^f00012]: These maps, for illustrative purposes only, can be accessed on - http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/id-move/horses/legislation.htm, but the version deposited at the offices of the Secretary of State is the definitive version.

Citation, application and commencement

Meaning of “horse” and “passport”

Competent authority for Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008

Sale of horses

Passports

Application for duplicate and replacement passports

Importation

Detecting previous active marking of horses

Transponders

Accompanying documentation

Movement to slaughter

Issue of duplicate and replacement passports

Procedure on death

Procedure by the passport issuing organisation on death

Treatment with a veterinary medicinal product

Databases

Prohibitions

Dartmoor, Exmoor and the New Forest

Enforcement

Powers of entry

Obstruction

Penalties

Offences by bodies corporate

Offences by partnerships and unincorporated associations

Revocations

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Editorial notes

[^key-9a5883079aa77f7e89b34fa24329ac2b]: Regulations revoked (1.10.2018) by The Equine Identification (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/761), regs. 1(1), 50