I've heard a bit about it. New foals and any other horse getting passported after 1st July will be micro chipped. Also police have the right to ask for passport to be produced anytime a horse is out and about. Including if your out on a hack! If it isn't on you at the time(like it fits in your back pocket!) you have 3 hours to produce it.
I think it is bit silly if i ride out a hack with horse, i have to carry passport. the passport is too big to put in the pocket. not ever in the summer. impossible!
i am wonder if attack me on hack, the theif can take horse with passport easily. meanwhile we can't call on mobile in forest where tehre is no signual.
I think people are getting confused as after the 1st July a passport must accompany a horse if it is moved in any wheeled vehicle for whatever purpose. You have far more chance of being asked to produce the passport by the Police in this instance if stopped for a roadside check than being asked if you are out for a hack.
yes but if it is interpreted as being out on a hack then it is just more sheer stupidity by office wallies who drafted it and the police who bothered to ask.
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Posted - 01 Feb 2009 : 11:31:17 AM
