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Horse Passports Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

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Issue of a horse passport

5.—(1) A recognised organisation shall, on application made to it under paragraph (2) or (3), issue for any horse to which the application relates an identification document in the form set out in the Schedule duly completed in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations.

(2) The owner of a horse born on or after 1st January 1998 may register it with a recognised organisation and, where he does so, he shall, at the time of that registration, apply to the recognised organisation for a horse passport for that horse.

(3) The owner of a horse born before 1st January 1998 and registered in the studbook of a recognised organisation may apply to that organisation for a horse passport for that horse.

(4) A horse passport shall be completed in English and French, but may in addition contain a translation (either of the whole horse passport or of any part of it) into such other language as the recognised organisation thinks fit.

(5) In the case of a horse born before 1st January 1998 where the studbook of a recognised organisation shows that the horse has had more than one owner since it was originally registered therein, the recognised organisation shall ensure that details relating to ownership in Section I of the horse passport are completed prior to its issue.

(6) Sections I to IV of a horse passport shall not be completed or amended by a person unless he is authorised for the purpose by the recognised organisation which issued it.

(7) An entry in Sections V to VIII of a horse passport shall not be made by any person other than a veterinary surgeon.

(8) Where a horse passport is completed or amended in contravention of this regulation—

(a)the person who so completed or amended it; and

(b)the recognised organisation which issued it in that form,

shall be guilty of an offence.

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