The Equine Identification (Wales) Regulations 2019

Databases

15.—(1) An issuing body must provide the following information to the central database—

(a) within 24 hours of the information being created or amended by the body—

(i) the identification details described in Article 27(1);

(ii) the information recorded in the issuing body’s database under Article 38(1);

(b) within 24 hours of a request from the Welsh Ministers, such other information (not falling within sub-paragraph (a)) as the Welsh Ministers may reasonably request in relation to the issuing of any ID by the issuing body or the carrying out by the issuing body of its functions under these Regulations or the EU Regulation.

(2) Following a request in writing from an issuing body, the Welsh Ministers may extend the time within which the issuing body is to provide the information under paragraph (1) to the central database.

(3) Any extension of time under paragraph (2) must be notified to the issuing body in writing.

(4) For the purposes of Article 40(1), an issuing body must incorporate the information falling within Articles 28(e) and 38(1) into the central database.

(5) The Welsh Ministers may issue guidance to issuing bodies about the central database and how to enter information into it.

(6) The Welsh Ministers may share any data or information held or stored in, or which is to be held or stored in, the central database with the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers and, in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.

(7) In this regulation, “central database” means the database established by the Secretary of State in accordance with Article 39.