18.—(1) After 28 February 2005 no person may sell a horse without a passport.
(2) On the sale of a horse, the seller must give the passport to the buyer or, at auction sales, the auctioneer must give the passport to the buyer.
(3) The new owner or the owner’s representative must, 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 must complete Section I of the passport in accordance with the rules of the passport-issuing organisation.
(4) A person in possession of a passport must produce it on reasonable demand to the passport-issuing organisation that issued it, and must surrender it on reasonable demand to that organisation.
(5) An owner of a horse that dies or is slaughtered must send the passport to the passport-issuing authority within 30 days of the death.