Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Part II Additional provisions relating to the transport of animals through a market where documentation is unavailable for the whole period of the journey

8.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), this Part shall apply in relation to animals which pass through a market in the course of a journey.

(2) This Part shall not apply where a person is transporting an animal from a market and where documentation to establish the time at which that animal left the point where the journey to the market began is available.

9.  If a person transports from a market animals which he did not take to that market, the documentation required under Article 14 shall show the market as the beginning of the journey for the purposes of recording the place, date and time of loading.

10.  When animals are transported from a market, a person shall not transport them for more than 4 hours except in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

11.  The animals to be transported shall have been at market for a period of at least one hour sufficient in particular for them to be given liquid and, if necessary fed.

12.  Any journey of more than 4 hours from the market shall be in a vehicle complying with paragraph 2 of Part I.

13.  In the case of unweaned calves, lambs, kids and foals which are still on a milk diet and unweaned piglets, they may be transported for 9 hours from a market if the journey to the market was not more than 4 hours (or 9 hours if the journey was in a vehicle complying with paragraph 2 of Part I).

14.  In the case of pigs or horses, they may be transported for 8 hours from a market if the journey to the market was not more than 4 hours (or 8 hours if the journey was in a vehicle complying with paragraph 2 of Part I).

15.  In the case of all other cattle, sheep and goats to which this Schedule applies, they may be transported for 14 hours from a market if the journey to the market was not more than 4 hours (or 14 hours if the journey was in a vehicle complying with paragraph 2 of Part I).

16.  It shall be a defence for a transporter transporting animals from a market to show that he took all reasonable steps to establish that the conditions in paragraphs 9 to 15 relating to the transport of animals to the market were satisfied.