United Kingdom horse owners will have an extra six months to obtain passports for their animals, after regulations detailing the requirements of the horse passport program were brought before Parliament.

The new horse passport regulations will help protect the human food chain by ensuring that all horses, ponies, and donkeys are issued with identification documents, which must contain details of certain veterinary drugs if the animal could end up being used for human consumption. It will enable the British horse industry to continue using treatments that are important for horses not intended for the food chain