It is an offence to sell an equine without a passport. Transfers of ownership must be notified within 28 days. Historically, regulated changes to passports for Irish-bred horses, such asupgrading HSI foal identity documents to full pedigree passports, naming and transfers of ownership, always had to be completed byHorse Sport Ireland (HSI). Overstamping: If you have imported an Irish Draught or Irish Draught Sport Horse from the Republic of Ireland (or any other country outside the UK), you MUST ensure that the passport is over-stamped by a Passport Issuing Organisation (PIO) in the UK, so that the animal’s record can be included on the Central Equine Database. The Immediate Exchange Protocol 2024 will replace formulae A and B, and the Release of Contracts Protocol 2024 will replace formula C of the Society’s formulae for exchanging contracts.

You must be the owner of a horse to register it. It is the owner’s responsibility to ensure a passport is obtained within the time scale prescribed by law.If you buy or have bred an unregistered equine that is over the age or the date deadline, you must register the animal immediately. Owners of unregistered equines run the risk of prosecution. Equines to be registered must be identified and microchipped by a veterinary surgeon. DNA must be taken by the vet at the same time and submitted with the application. DNA kits are available from the Administration Office or from our passport administrators. On 10 June, we received definitive guidance on the procedures for updating Horse Sport Ireland passports if the horses are living in the UK. We can now offer the following services for those horses: However, ‘solicitors using such a form of contract should satisfy themselves that it meets the legal requirements for a property contract in section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 and are recommended to refer to the Law Society’s practice note on execution of a document using an electronic signature and practice guide 82: electronic signatures accepted by HM Land Registry’.

If you need a replacement passport for an equine that is already registered, please see the Guidance Notes on Duplicate Passports. Satisfying section 2 is crucial, as Philip Freedman CBE KC (Hon), a member of the Society’s conveyancing and land law committee, explained this week. ‘To satisfy section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, the agreement must be in writing, be signed and either incorporate all the agreed terms in a single document, or, if each party signs their own version, each document must contain all the agreed terms and these contracts must be exchanged. If a contract for the acquisition of an interest in land doesn’t comply with section 2 the agreement will be void.’ Upgrading Irish foal papers (identity documents) to a full passport once DNA parentage testing has been confirmed. If you want an Irish full passport for your Irish-bred foal or young horse, please arrange to have this work done before you import the animal. Once it is in Great Britain, it must have an IDHS (GB) full passport. An identity diagram is required to register all horses irrespective of the category they are in. This must always be completed by a vet, who will also insert a microchip. The Society does not have its own microchips, so this is supplied by your vet. As a result of Brexit, no passport-issuing organisation in Great Britain is permitted to process any passports for animals living outside Great Britain. This is reciprocal; i.e. Horse Sport Ireland is not allowed to process passports for animals living outside the island of Ireland.

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The passport would then be sent to the IDHS (GB) passport administrators for overstamping. This is a legal requirement, so that this information can be uploaded to the Central Equine Database. Up until recently, owners of Irish-bred horses had to send the passport to Horse Sport Ireland first, and then to us. The fee structure will be kept under review, but is in line with the fees for passport services for British-bred horses. Thank you for your patience while we were waiting for guidance from Defra and DAFM. If the horse’s identity is not clear; e.g. it has two microchips or the microchip cannot be located. Naming, re-naming (Irish passports only), changes of ownership, addition of microchip numbers and other minor changes.

Your source for all of the latest need-to-know news, advice, analysis, and discussion surrounding the Draft Premier League fantasy football game. On this week’s episode, Sanjy, Genie, Totti & Ryan discuss: On signing electronically, there needs to be an agreement that no contract is made at the signing stage. An agreed arrangement needs to be in place before exchange as to how to agree the exact moment when the contract is entered into. The Law Society unveiled a draft conveyancing protocol on Wednesday to support residential and commercial solicitors in moving towards a digital process for exchanging contracts fit for the 21st century. We know that you’re under pressure from clients to update the way you do business following technological changes and the impact of Covid-19. We know that the law isn’t entirely clear around certain aspects of using electronic documents in the conveyancing process,’ the Society said. Your source for all of the latest need-to-know news, advice, analysis, and discussion surrounding the Draft Premier League fantasy football game. On this week’s episode, Joe, Totti, & Ryan discuss:I already have a passport from another organisation, but want it overstamped by the IDHS (GB). Where do I find the form?

Join us for a bit of fun over the International Break as Ryan and Gordon square off in the Key Pass Collective's Draft Premier League quiz finale!!! Due to Brexit, the European (EU) Breeding Regulation no longer applies in the United Kingdom. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has drawn up its own rules for passport-issuing organisations in England, Wales and Scotland. Equines in Northern Ireland are not affected by this change.The passport remains the property of the Society at all times and must be returned to the Society for amendment on request, and when the horse dies. In the latter case, it may be returned to the owner on request after it has been invalidated.