PASSPORT AND TRANSPORT

[bungalowpickle]

OK CAN ANY ONE HELP! i have just been told by the people who are going to move my horse to a new loan home that he cannot travel without a passport is it right

 

[xnaughtybutnicex]

Yes, that's right but you should really have one already??

 

[PeterNatt]

Yes this is absolutely correct. If you are moving a horse to a new home and the lorry is stopped by the Police and Fair Standards Trading Officers then you could face a fine if you do not have the horses passport with the horse.

As from 1st July 2009 any new horse passports can only be issued if a horse has already been micro-chipped with a European standard micro-chip.

 

[rara007]

I don't know, but we always travel the ponies whith their passports as I think if you get stopped by the police they could ask you to take the passports to the police station if you don't have them on you. The passport will have to go with the horse too, so it might as well go with it....

 

[sarah23]

Rara_2008 I would start traveling with your passports as all horse/ponies should travel with their passports. If you are stopped and you do not have the passports you will be fined, no ifs and buts about it.

The only time you don not have to travel with passports is if it is a trip to the vets.

 

[JessPickle]

See we have used two different people to take our horse to the vets, one said we didnt need it because it was the vets. The other said we did, allthough we couldnt anyway as the passport was off for change of ownership to be sorted

 

[Parkranger]

If he's going on loan then you should give it to them anyway....

 

[rara007]

As I said, we always do travel them with them. We are almost always competing and we have to give in the ponies passports while we are staying at the shows. I don't see why there would be a reason not to travel without them, unless as jess said they were being sorted.

 

[CracklinRosie]

Yes you must travel horse with a passport nunless it's coming in from abroad and then it'll have travel documents and then you have 28 days to have a passport issued if it's staying in the country.

 

[sarah23]

Sorry Rara_2008 i read your post wrong, i thought it said you didn't travel with your passports. That will teach me to read it probably in future

 

[Orangehorse]

Yes, you need the passport, unless you are just going for a hack for instance. I keep a photo-copy of the passport in my vehicle so if I am stopped I can show that to prove I have one. If I was going to a show I would have the original anyway.

 

[smellyellie741]

when ever the horse travells it should have a passport

we got stoped once and didnt have it but luckly we new the pc so showed him the next day and all was fine but he said had he not known us we would have been fined

 

[1275gta]

I was under the impression you only needed them if you were travelling to compete. I was told for fun rides or hacks or lessons you do not to carry them.

 

[Thistle]

from Defra

Q7. Are there any restrictions on the use of horses without passports, and if so from when do they apply?
A7. Yes. There are restrictions on the use of horses that should have been issued with a passport. These are:

When it is moved into or out of Great Britain;
When it is used for the purposes of competitions;
When it is moved to the premises of a new keeper;
When it is presented at a slaughterhouse for slaughter;
When it is sold; or
When it is used for breeding purposes
These restrictions applied from 28 February 2005, and continue to apply until a passport has been issued for the horse.


so I would take that to read that if you were travelling to a lesson or hack or moving to a new yard the horse wouldn't need it's passport.

However commercial transporters will need the passport except in an emergency to visit vets.

 

[Donkeymad]

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As from 1st July 2009 any new horse passports can only be issued if a horse has already been micro-chipped with a European standard micro-chip.

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I thought it was just foals??

 

[natalia]

yeah whatever, passsports are a farce and I'm afraid who's going to make all the pikeys buy one? and I'm sorry, but I never re register anything in my name either as don't see why I should pay some incompentant society a stupid fee to do so.

 

[Smash]

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don't see why I should pay some incompentant society a stupid fee to do so.

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Don't worry, you can pay your stupid fee to the police instead.

 

[Cuffey]

Passport travels with horse to new home but please photocopy relevant pages to keep yourself in case of any problems later