The Horse Passports Regulations 2009

Regulation 18

SCHEDULE Dartmoor, Exmoor and the New Forest

Application of this Schedule

1.—(1) The derogation in Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008 applies in relation to horses—

(a) identified in the lists kept by the Verderers of the New Forest(1) or entered in the stud book of the New Forest Pony Breeding and Cattle Society(2);

(b) identified in the lists kept by the Dartmoor Commoners’ Council(3); or

(c) entered in the stud book of the Exmoor Pony Society.

(2) Dartmoor, Exmoor and the New Forest, are designated for the purposes of Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008 (“designated areas”) as areas containing defined populations of horses living under wild or semi-wild conditions that do not need to be identified with passports while they remain within the designated area.

(3) For the purposes of this Schedule these are the areas designated in maps marked as such(4) and deposited at the offices of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.

Veterinary treatment

2.  If a horse without a passport in a designated area is treated with any veterinary medicinal product the owner must ensure that it is fully identified and implanted with a transponder in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008 within 30 days of treatment, and failure to do so is an offence.

Movement off the designated area

3.—(1) It is an offence to move a horse without a passport off the designated area (other than temporarily for welfare reasons) unless the horse is marked with a sticker issued by a passport issuing organisation dated with the date on which it was attached to the horse and bearing a unique identification number.

(2) Unless the horse is aged under 12 months and is being taken for slaughter for human consumption it must also be accompanied by a passport application containing its silhouette and the number of the identifying sticker.

(3) The person moving the horse must take it directly to the holding of destination outside the designated area.

(4) Within 30 days of arrival at the holding of destination the owner must apply for a passport for it, and failure to do so is an offence (this does not apply in the case of a horse taken to a slaughterhouse for slaughter for human consumption, but it is an offence to slaughter such a horse more than seven days after the date on the identifying sticker).

(5) It is an offence to move the horse off the holding of destination until it has received a passport.

(1)

The Verderers of the New Forest is a body corporate incorporated under section 22 of the New Forest Act 1977 (c. cxxi).

(2)

The New Forest Pony Breeding and Cattle Society and the Exmoor Pony Society are passport issuing organisations recognised by the Secretary of State under Commission Regulation (EC) No 504/2008.

(3)

The Dartmoor Commoners’ Council was established by section 3(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 (c. xxxvii).

(4)

These maps, for illustrative purposes only, can be accessed on - http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/id-move/horses/legislation.htm, but the version deposited at the offices of the Secretary of State is the definitive version.