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1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Cattle Identification (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 and come into operation on 3rd July 2026.
(2)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2Amendments to the Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998#
(1)The Cattle Identification (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 are amended as follows.
(2)In regulation 2(1), in the definition of “approved eartag”, after “Article 9(1)”, insert “and (3)”.
(3)In regulation 3(1), sub-paragraph (a), after “Article 9(1)”, insert “and (3)”.
(4)After regulation 3, insert—“3A In accordance with Article 41(1) of the Commission Delegated Regulation, the person responsible for identifying an animal in accordance with Article 38 of that Regulation may replace one of the conventional eartags referred to in Article 38(1)(a) by an electronic eartag approved by the Department in accordance with Article 9(3) of the Commission Implementing Regulation.”
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