CHAPTER V U.K. MOVEMENT AND TRANSPORT OF EQUIDAE

Article 25 U.K. Derogation for movements with a smart card

1. By way of derogation from Article 23(1), the competent authority may authorise the movement or transport of registered equidae or equidae for breeding and production within [F1 Great Britain] not accompanied by their identification document, provided that they are accompanied by a smart card issued by the same issuing body that issued their identification document and containing the information set out in Annex II.

[F2 2. Paragraph 1 also applies in relation to the transportation of registered equidae or equidae for breeding and production within Great Britain in circumstances where those equidae have entered Great Britain from a member State or from Northern Ireland.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 25(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 29(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 27(22)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Art. 25(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 29(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 27(22)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)