http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/9/article/1/made

Marking of Animals Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Animals

Government Printer for Northern Ireland

2022-04-21

ANIMALS

This Order empowers an inspector or other authorised officer of the Department of Agriculture to apply a mark or an ear tag or other means of identification to any bovine, caprine, ovine or porcine animal. The Order also prohibits the alteration, removal, obliteration, defacing or duplication of any such mark or means of identification without the Department of Agriculture’s permission.