Export of live animals
3.—(1) No person shall export any live animal of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or any other biungulate to any other member State.
(2) By way of derogation from the preceding paragraph, the Minister (in England), the National Assembly for Wales (in Wales), Scottish Ministers (in Scotland) or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (in Northern Ireland) may by licence in writing authorise the export of biungulate animals originating outside the United Kingdom to another member State if the animals travelled through the United Kingdom in direct and uninterrupted transit on main roads or by rail.