S.L. 437.60 Art. 8Identification document and certificates.

(1) The competent authority shall verify that:

(i) registered equidae which leave their holdings are accompanied by the identification document laid down in rule 4(4) together if they are intended for intra-Community trade with the attestation provided for in Schedule B;

(ii) equidae for breeding, production and slaughter are, during their transportation to a Member State, accompanied by a health certificate complying with Schedule C to these rules. Equidae for breeding, production and slaughter at destination Malta are accompanied by a health certificate complying with Schedule C thereof. The certificate, or in the case of an identification document, the form containing the health particulars, must, without prejudice to rule 6, be drawn up during the forty-eight hours preceding their embarkation or else no later than the last working day prior to it, in at least one of the official languages of Malta and of the Member State of destination. The duration of validity of the certificate is ten days. The certificate must consist of a single sheet.

(2) Imports of equidae, other than registered equidae, may be covered by a single health certificate per consignment rather than by the individual certificate referred to in sub-rule (1)(ii).