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19.—(1) After 28th February 2005 no person shall sell a horse without a passport.
(2) On the sale of a horse, the seller shall give the passport to the buyer or, at auction sales, the auctioneer shall give the passport to the buyer.
(3) The new owner or his representative shall, within 30 days of purchase send to the passport-issuing organisation that issued the passport—
(a)the name and address of the new owner; and
(b)the name and identification number or alphanumeric code of the horse as entered in Section II of the passport,
and shall complete Section I of the passport in accordance with the rules of the passport-issuing organisation.
(4) A person in possession of a passport shall produce it on reasonable demand to the passport-issuing organisation that issued it, and shall surrender it on reasonable demand to that organisation.
(5) An owner of a horse that dies or is slaughtered shall send the passport to the passport-issuing authority within 30 days of the death.
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