http://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/130/article/21/madeThe Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2008AnimalsStray animalsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2016-09-14ANIMALS, WALES;ANIMAL HEALTHThis Order makes provision for the administration and enforcement in Wales of Council Regulation (EC) No. 21/2004 (establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC). It revokes and replaces the Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2006, S.I. 2006/1036 (as amended by S.I. 2006/2926), changing the domestic identification requirements to reflect the fact that the UK will no longer take advantage of a derogation from the main double tagging regime under Council Regulation 21/2004.The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2008Gorchymyn Defaid a Geifr (Cofnodion, Adnabod a Symud) (Cymru) 2008OrderThe Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movement) (Wales) Order 2009Gorchymyn Defaid a Geifr (Cofnodion, Adnabod a Symud) (Cymru) 2009art. 45art. 1PART 4Removal or replacement of identification marks
Loss of methods of identification applied in a third country.21.

Where an animal is imported from a third country and re-tagged in accordance with Article 4(4) of the Council Regulation, the keeper is not required to replace a method of identification applied in the third country if it subsequently becomes lost or illegible.