Animal welfare in transport
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What you must do to protect the welfare of animals during transport.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What you must do to protect the welfare of animals during transport. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Hiring a transporter to move animals
- Report an animal welfare in transport offence
- Enforcement
- Vehicle cleaning and disinfecting
- Cleaning your vehicle
- Disinfecting your vehicle
- Transporting animals in connection with an economic activity
- Definitions
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Animal welfare in transport’ (updated 14 October 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026