86AEar-marking or tattooing of animals

#### 86A Ear-marking or tattooing of animals 86A Ear-marking or tattooing of animals > > (1) A veterinary practitioner who desexes a female companion animal is to ear-mark or tattoo the animal, for the purpose of indicating that the animal is desexed, at the time that it is under anaesthetic for the desexing procedure. > > > (2) Subsection (1) does not authorise or require any ear-marking or tattooing procedure to be undertaken without the consent of the owner of the companion animal. > > > (3) Subsection (1) does not apply if— > > > > > (a) the veterinary practitioner has sought the consent of the owner of the companion animal and the owner has denied consent to the ear-marking or tattooing procedure, or > > > > > (b) the veterinary practitioner considers that the ear-marking or tattooing procedure cannot be undertaken safely and humanely at that time. > > > (4) For the purposes of this section, the Departmental Chief Executive may, from time to time, prepare, adopt or vary guidelines relating to ear-marking or tattooing of companion animals. > > **s 86A:** Ins 2018 No 27, Sch 1 \[18\].