This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations amend the National Animal Identification and Tracing (Obligations and Exemptions) Regulations 2012 (the principal regulations). The amendments come into force on 1 July 2015.

The amendments relate to a PICA (person in day-to-day charge of an animal) who, under regulation 17(2) of the principal regulations, is exempt from certain obligations about an animal because the PICA has decided that it is impracticable to fit a NAIT device to the animal. The amendments impose another condition on the exemption so that an owner of the animal must pay any levy set for such animals under the National Animal Identification and Tracing Act 2012. The offence provision is amended so that it continues to apply to all conditions of exemption.